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Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace

Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's architectural past to resurrect Louis XIV's vanished Versailles. Versailles was an ongoing building site at the time of Louis XIV and continued to be transformed by its successive occupants later on. The Versailles we know today only vaguely resembles the Versailles of the Sun King. Most of its original features and apartments no longer exist. Thanks to the digitisation of thousands of plans, a team of scientists takes us back in time to explore this forgotten past in a new way, through a large-scale reconstruction project to bring back the Versailles of Louis XIV as he designed it, according to his requirements and dreams.

Top Cast

  • Jean-Noël Martin

    Jean-Noël Martin

    Louis XIV vieux

  • Delphine Bechetoille

    Delphine Bechetoille

    Reine Marie-Thérèse

  • Bertrand Chamerois

    Bertrand Chamerois

    Nicodème Tessin

  • Clara Cirera

    Clara Cirera

    Dame d'honneur

  • Anouchka Csernakova

    Anouchka Csernakova

    Anne d'Autriche

  • Charles Durot

    Charles Durot

    Marquis de Sourde

  • Alice Gozlan

    Alice Gozlan

    La Dauphine

  • Donat Guibert

    Donat Guibert

    Charles Perrault (as Guibert Donat)

  • Douglas Jouishomme

    Douglas Jouishomme

    Louis XIV

Overview

Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's architectural past to resurrect Louis XIV's vanished Versailles. Versailles was an ongoing building site at the time of Louis XIV and continued to be transformed by its successive occupants later on. The Versailles we know today only vaguely resembles the Versailles of the Sun King. Most of its original features and apartments no longer exist. Thanks to the digitisation of thousands of plans, a team of scientists takes us back in time to explore this forgotten past in a new way, through a large-scale reconstruction project to bring back the Versailles of Louis XIV as he designed it, according to his requirements and dreams.

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