Urmarind aventurile lui Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy, care face parte dintr-o familie scapatata de vechi nobili, filmul schiteaza o fresca a Curtii lui Ludovic al XVI-lea si anticamerelor Versailles-ului, in anul 1780, unde spiritualitatea avea un dusman de moarte: ridicolul.
Charles Berling, Fanny Ardant, Jean Rochefort, Judith Godrëche, Bernard Giraudeau
Tentatia seductiei (1999, Roger Kumble)
Cruel Intentions
Beau Brummell (1954, Curtis Bernhardt)
Valmont (1989, Milos Forman)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990, Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
Legaturi periculoase (1988, Stephen Frears)
Dangerous Liaisons
Verisoara Bette (1997, Des McAnuff)
Cousin Bette
All the Mornings of the World (1991, Alain Corneau)
Tous les Matins du Monde
Frumoasa Venetiana (1998, Marshall Herskovitz)
Dangerous Beauty
Farmecul Scenei (2004, Richard Eyre)
Stage Beauty
Saint-Cyr (2000, Patricia Mazuy)
Vatel (2000, Roland Joffé)
Restauratie (1994, Michael Hoffman)
Restoration
Let Joy Reign Supreme . . . (1975, Bertrand Tavernier)
Que la fête commence...

rege, onestitate, Franta, spirit, insulta, curte