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Overview
Échec au roy is a French comedy romance film first released in 1945,
directed by Jean-Paul Paulin.
The film stars Lucien Baroux, Jacques Berlioz, Janine Cazenave, Marion Darmelles and Françoise Delille.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
Synopsis
Madame de Maintenon, the founder of the Saint-Cyr school for daughters
of the nobility, takes it upon herself to find a husband for her
adopted daughter, Jeannette de Pincre. The man she has in mind is
the young Viscount Haussy de Villefort, but King Louis XIV prefers that
Jeanette should marry the more mature Duke de Montgobert.
Jeannette feels that she is too young to marry, and when she confides
her misgivings in her friend La Verdure, the gardener of Saint-Cyr, he
lets slip that the Viscount has been having an affair with the actress
Adrienne Lecouvreur. At her first meeting with Villefort,
Jeannette is so rude to Villefort that he decides to give up his
suit. After a duel with Montgobert, the Viscount is commanded by
the King to join his regiment in Flanders, but before he goes he
decides that he must marry Jeannette at any cost...
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