How to Get Ahead at Versailles
Versailles
Season 1 Episode 3 of 3
Writer and broadcaster Stephen Smith explores the flamboyant court of French monarch Louis XIV at the Palace of Versailles, where he surrounded himself with aristocrats, artists, interior designers, gardeners, wig-makers, chefs and musicians. Ambitious courtiers scrambled to get closer to the king, but the bedchamber seemed to provide a more unseemly path to power
How to Get Ahead at Versailles airs on BBC Four HD at 2:00 AM, Sunday 26 October. (Subtitles.)
Topics
News ➝ Current Affairs
Documentary
Stephen Smith
Presenter
Basil Comely
Executive Producer
Ian Leese
Producer