Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Jean-Noël MartinLouis XIV vieux

Delphine Bechetoille

Delphine BechetoilleReine Marie-Thérèse

Bertrand ChameroisNicodème Tessin

Clara Cirera

Clara CireraDame d'honneur

Anouchka CsernakovaAnne d'Autriche

Charles DurotMarquis de Sourde

Alice Gozlan

Alice GozlanLa Dauphine

Donat Guibert

Donat GuibertCharles Perrault (as Guibert Donat)

Douglas Jouishomme

Douglas JouishommeLouis XIV

Emmanuel MénardCourtisan parlant (as Emmanuel Menard)

Olivier Pierre RichardSecrétaire parlant

Geoffrey Finch

Geoffrey FinchNarrator (English)