To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Charles Berling
as Le Marquis Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy
Jean Rochefort
as Le Marquis de Bellegarde
Fanny Ardant
as Madame de Blayac
Judith Godrèche
as Mathilde de Bellegarde
Bernard Giraudeau
as L'Abbée de Vilecourt
Bernard Dhéran
as Montalieri
Carlo Brandt
as Milletail
Jacques Mathou
as Abbé de l'Épée
Urbain Cancelier
as Louis XVI
Albert Delpy
as Baron de Guéret
Bruno Zanardi
as Paul
Marie Pillet
as Charlotte
