Le Diable Rouge

August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his sleep is troubled and he has a serious fever. He barely eats and weakens increasingly. This is the start of the slow agony of the greatest king of France, surrounded by his relatives and doctors.

การเล่าเรื่องของพระราชินีมารี อ็องตัวเน็ต ผู้โด่งดังแต่โชคร้ายของฝรั่งเศส จากการหมั้นหมายและการแต่งงานกับพระเจ้าหลุยส์ที่ 16 เมื่ออายุ 15 ปี สู่การครองราชย์เป็นพระราชินีเมื่ออายุ 19 ปี และท้ายที่สุดคือการล่มสลายของแวร์ซาย

1792. Louis XVI, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their children have been arrested and imprisoned in the Tour du Temple, a sinister chateau in Paris, awaiting their trial. Far from the splendour of Versailles, they are isolated and vulnerable for the first time in their lives.

Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.

In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, so the extravagances are to impress the king. In charge of all is the steward, Vatel, a man of honor, talent, and low birth. The prince is craven in his longing for stature: no task is too menial or dishonorable for him to give Vatel. While Vatel tries to sustain dignity, he finds himself attracted to Anne de Montausier, the king's newest mistress. In Vatel, she finds someone who's authentic, living out his principles within the casual cruelties of court politics. Can the two of them escape unscathed?

Soon after her latest husband death, the King himself (Louis XIV) meets with our heroine and begs her to help convince the Persian Ambassador to agree to a treaty. However, what they didn't realize was that the handsome Persian was in fact a sexual sadist. So, it is up to the King's half- brother, some Hungarian prince, to save Angélique from the evil troll's clutches.

France, 1809. Captain Neuville is called to the front, leaving his future bride heartbroken. Her sister decides to write letters on his behalf to cheer her up.

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.

Les Miserables หรือ เหยื่ออธรรม สร้างจากวรรณกรรมอันเลื่องชื่อของฝรั่งเศสเมื่อปี 1862 ประพันธ์โดย วิคเตอร์ ฮูโก เนื้อเรื่องได้สะท้อนให้เห็นความทุกข์ยากของประชาชนซึ่งไม่ได้ความเป็นธรรม และความเท่าเทียมในสังคม แต่ในขณะเดียวกันก็สะท้อนให้เห็นความงดงามของจิตใจมนุษย์อันมีอิทธิพลผลักดันให้มนุษย์มุ่งมั่นที่จะกระทำความดีอย่างถึงที่สุด แม้ว่าจะต้องพบพานความยากลำบากก็ตาม

Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer