Nov 29, 2011
90 min
Full-HD

Louis XVI, l'homme qui ne voulait pas être roi (2011)

The dramatic events around the French king Louis XVI and the French crises in the late 1700's with no will to pay taxes, which led Louis XVI into an impossible situation as a king.

Category

History

Country

France

Companies

Les Films d'Ici France 2

Gabriel Dufay

Louis XVI

Raphaëlle Agogué

Marie-Antoinette

Jean-Yves Berteloot

Turgot

Carlo Brandt

Necker

Jean-Christophe Bouvet

Loménie de Brienne

André Penvern

Maurepas

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