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Louis XVI (23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792, before being executed in 1793.
Succeeding Louis XV, his unpopular grandfather, Louis XVI was well aware of the growing discontent of the French population against the absolute monarchy. The first part of his reign is marked by his attempts to reform the kingdom in accordance with the Enlightenment ideals (abolition of torture, abolition of the serfdom, tolerance towards Jews and Protestants, abolition of the Taille etc.). However, Louis XVI failed to impose his will, as his reforms stumbled on the hostility of the nobles.
Louis XVI actively supported the Americans, who were seeking their independence from Great Britain, which was realized in the 1783 Treaty of Paris. The example of the American Revolution and the financial crisis which followed France's involvement in the war were two of the many contributing factors to the French Revolution, which broke out in 1789.
Actors: Stéphanie Reynaud (actress), Michelle Métivier (writer), Michelle Métivier (director), Jennifer Scott (producer), Loïc Benot (actor), Sarah Skinner (actress),
Genres: History,Actors: Roc LaFortune (actor), David La Haye (actor), Charles Berling (actor), Nicoletta Massone (costume designer), Jean-Claude Carrière (writer), Yves Simoneau (director), Sylvie de Segonzac (costume designer), Paul Savoie (actor), Danny Gilmore (actor), Paul Doucet (actor), Claude Préfontaine (actor), Karine Vanasse (actress), Paul Ahmarani (actor), Isabelle Malenfant (editor), Frédéric Desager (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: David Gabison (actor), Jean-Claude de Goros (actor), Dominique Besnehard (actor), Etienne Draber (actor), Jean-François Balmer (actor), Alain Chabat (actor), Marc Dudicourt (actor), Michel Aumont (actor), Pierre Arditi (actor), Roland Blanche (actor), Patrick Bouchitey (actor), Jean-Claude Brialy (actor), Jay Benedict (actor), José Garcia (actor), Pierre Arditi (actor),
Plot: The life story of the titular Beaumarchais (Fabrice Luchini), playwright and adventurer, who gets himself into numerous different scrapes and romantic encounters in 18th Century France.
Keywords: 1700s, 18th-century, actress, american-revolution, based-on-play, businessman, censorship, character-name-in-title, inventor, justiceActors: Michel Duchaussoy (actor), Georges Corraface (actor), François Cluzet (actor), Jean Bouise (actor), Jean-Pol Brissart (actor), Marc de Jonge (actor), Jacques Ciron (actor), Klaus Maria Brandauer (actor), Jay Benedict (actor), Yves Beneyton (actor), Jean-François Balmer (actor), Jean-Paul Bonnaire (actor), Jean-Yves Berteloot (actor), François-Eric Gendron (actor), Michel Galabru (actor),
Plot: A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the story from 1789 until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all his authority and was put in prison). The second part carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794, including the deaths by guillotine of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Danton, and Desmoulins.
Keywords: 1780s, 1790s, 18th-century, abuse-of-power, beheading, blood, cruelty, death-penalty, decapitation, democracyActors: Claude Brosset (actor), Charles Gérard (actor), Claude Rich (actor), Pierre Massimi (actor), Jean-Claude Sachot (actor), Jean-Philippe Chatrier (actor), Alec Costandinos (director), Alec Costandinos (composer),
Genres: Short,Actors: Jean-Marc Thibault (actor), Guy Tréjan (actor), Etienne Chicot (composer), Bruno Cremer (actor), Gérard Darmon (actor), Bernard Fresson (actor), Yves Beneyton (actor), Gérard Lartigau (actor), Christine Murillo (actress), Micheline Presle (actress), Christine Pascal (actress), Yves Gabrielli (actor), Mostéfa Stiti (actor), Jacques Portet (producer), Jacques Portet (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: André Chanu (actor), Henri Bosc (actor), Julien Carette (actor), Georges Bever (actor), René Blancard (actor), Georges Bever (actor), Alain Bouvette (actor), Edmond Beauchamp (actor), Andrex (actor), Louis Arbessier (actor), Amédée (actor), Georges Bever (actor), Antoine Balpêtré (actor), Aimé Clariond (actor), René Berthier (actor),
Plot: A witty journey through the history of Paris told to a group of students by Sacha Guitry, from its foundation at the time of Caesar to 1955. Among others you will meet King Charles VII making Agnès Sorel his mistress; you will witness the creation of printing spurred on by King Louis XI; share the life in the Louvres Palace at the time of King François Ier; spend the last night before St Bartholomew's massacre; be horrified by the murder of Henri III by a fanatical monk, watch the abjuration of protestantism by King Henri IV; try to resolve the Man in the Iron Mask enigma; take part in the storming of the Bastille, be present at the execution of King Louis XVI and at the trial of Queen Marie-Antoinette; participate in the Paris Commune, take sides in the Dreyfus affair.
Keywords: city-name-in-title, paris-franceActors: Maurice Escande (actor), Jacques Dumesnil (actor), Pierre Brasseur (actor), André Chanu (actor), Jean-Jacques Delbo (actor), Bernard Dhéran (actor), Louis de Funès (actor), Lucien Baroux (actor), Louis Arbessier (actor), Jean Debucourt (actor), Jean Degrave (actor), Aimé Clariond (actor), Jean-Pierre Aumont (actor), Robert Favart (actor), Fernand Fabre (actor),
Plot: Orson Welles è Hudson Lowe in questa mega produzione cinematografica che racconta scorci ed episodi della vita di Napoleone.
Keywords: 1790s, 1800s, 1810s, based-on-history, battle, character-name-in-title, family-relationships, french-army, french-soldier, marie-walewskaActors: Gino Cervi (actor), Christian Brocard (actor), Louis Arbessier (actor), Jean-Pierre Aumont (actor), Jean-Louis Allibert (actor), Bourvil (actor), Charles Bayard (actor), Michel Auclair (actor), Jacques Berthier (actor), René Berthier (actor), Georges Bever (actor), Paul Azaïs (actor), Michel Bouquet (actor), Jean-Louis Barrault (actor), Georges Chamarat (actor),
Plot: Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
Keywords: 17th-century, 18th-century, episodic-structure, king, place-name-in-title, queen, versaillesActors: Lillie Hayward (writer), E. Mason Hopper (director), Marion Davies (actress), Ken Maynard (actor), Lee Beggs (actor), Florence Turner (actress), George Siegmann (actor), Harrison Ford (actor), Olin Howland (actor), Joseph Kilgour (actor), Spencer Charters (actor), W.C. Fields (actor), Wilfred Noy (actor), Walter Futter (editor), Walter Law (actor),
Plot: It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Washington. Fields is a comic, drunken British sergeant.
Keywords: american-revolution, based-on-novel, box-office-flop, character-name-in-title, george-washington, thomas-jeffersonWell it’s a minor altercation
Despite your hesitation
By all agrees that you will see how we’re causing quite a sensation
So publication of needing motivation
Your mother says it’s OK outside the subway station
You’re taking off your stripes
Even your knees are nice
I’ll tease you with a knife until you’re screaming for your life
I think so too
And you surrender
Can I spend you up? you’re my illegally illegal tender
It takes a lover, it takes a lover
It takes a lover that will love me like no other
It takes a lover, it takes a lover
It takes a lover that knows I love her like no other
Well it’s a minor altercation
Despite your hesitation
And apart the contrary and impending accusation
Cinematography that you’re willing but happy to see
A scene that stars you and a girl, you’re both on top of me
I looked into your eyes
And pushed your buttons and levers
You said you’d see until we agree and kindly said whatever
And you like my loving better
Cause’ you said so in a letter, that said return to sender
My illegally illegal tender
It takes a lover, it takes a lover
It takes a lover that will love me like no other
It takes a lover, it takes a lover
It takes a lover that knows I love her like no other
It takes a lover
Two in the pocket is better than three
Two in the pocket is better than three
It’s better than three
Two in the pocket is better than three
And three in the pocket is better than four
And five in the pocket is better than six
And put them together then pick up the sticks
It takes a lover, it takes a lover
It takes a lover that will love me like no other
It takes a lover, it takes a lover
It takes a lover that knows I love her like no other
It takes a lover, it takes a lover
It takes a lover that will love me like no other
It takes a lover, it takes a lover