Keeping his marriage to Francoise secret Louis aims to make himself popular by meeting Parisian citizens for a healing ceremony whilst Liselotte persuades Philippe to ret ...

Philippe is horrified at how the king disposes of their father, the prisoner, and his revocation of the Edict of Nantes, purging Protestantism in order to make France a C ...

The brothers learn the identity of the masked prisoner and the Vatican's involvement with him. Whilst Philippe is sympathetic to the old man the revelation disturbs Louis ...

Philippe persuades Louis to visit the midwife who delivered their older brother. She tells them of his fate but Philippe is disbelieving, his suspicions leading him to qu ...

With the queen dead Louis aims for an alliance with Spain by marrying Philippe's daughter Marie-Louise to its king, but needs Papal approval. This involves a purge of Pro ...

Louis appoints his lover Francoise to the council as he prepares to make Protestantism illegal. Guillaume offends Jeanne by recanting his religion to save their business ...

Having failed to petition the king for Tristan's release his father Bastien captures security chief Marchal. However Guillaume sees a chance to exchange prisoners, endors ...

Riots break out following the harsh taxes imposed and young shoe-maker Tristan is among those arrested. His uncle Guillaume and his outspoken sister play on Louis's conce ...

Having visited the Bastille to find the mysterious Duke de Sullum Philippe is knocked out and on recovering sees a man in an iron mask. Louis claims that he was deluded a ...

Philippe returns to Versailles with his prisoner, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold, who recommences his secret affair with the queen. A truce is called and a lavish banquet is ...

Madame Agathe is arrested as a witch following the ritual and her ledger confiscated, naming all the clients who sought her help for murderous purposes - including Montes ...

Louis sets out to trap Beaumont by getting Philippe close to him, arousing the Chevalier's jealousy though Philippe is enraged to learn that one of the king's maverick ge ...

Louis arrives back at Versailles, anxious to gain the support of the church at the expense of Montespan, whose excesses he interprets as a divine judgement on him. Her po ...

William of Orange suggests an alliance with Louis, which is rejected, Louis citing a betrayal of William's former alliances whilst at Versailles the queen investigates Is ...

As Louis triumphs in battle against the Dutch Queen Marie-Therese rules as regent but the poisonings continue though Fabien refuses to return to court. The queen responds ...

Fabien's loyalty to the king earns him scant reward from the king in the light of recent events whilst Gaston is returned to court and offers to help Sophie escape her di ...

As Sophie reluctantly marries the brutal Cassel, Madane de Foix is arrested as the poisoner and kills herself in prison. Philippe and the petulant Chevalier fall out but ...

Following the second poisoning and disappearance of Jacques Louis gets Fabien to increase security whilst planning the war with the Dutch and continuing his affair with t ...

The king is heavily criticized by the clergy, who refuse to billet his soldiers, and his wife for parading the pregnant Madame de Montespan at court. A particular enemy o ...

Louis has everything to be satisfied: his palace grows and arouses the admiration of the whole world; His troops were preparing to invade Holland and to crush William of ...

Louis is woken in the early hours by Henriette, who is coughing up blood, claiming she has been poisoned and, despite Claudine's best efforts, she does not survive. Panic ...

Louis believes to triumph diplomatically when his sister-in-law Henriette negotiates an alliance with England against the Dutch for cash and a guard for her brother, Engl ...

With his lover in prison and his wife Henriette surviving a miscarriage Philippe is not a happy man but Louis, buoyant at overcoming his enemies, is keen for an alliance ...

A scrubby laborer's hateful 'kiss'-spit may have infected king Louis, who is in bed hallucinating, haunted by worse-then-ever nightmares of a plot to steal his crown. Int ...

Just as Rohan is winning Philippe back as lover, Louis stubbornly charges him and Louvois, not the prince, with talking to the war veterans on palace construction strike, ...

King Louis is furious at his 'guard dog' Fabien Marchal for failing to prevent or punish the increasingly frequent 'brigand' attacks on deliveries for the vast estate's p ...

Cassel's brigands continue to slaughter visitors to Versailles including the king's god-daughter though Fabien has his suspicions as to their identity and arrests a likel ...

Louis XIV wants the nobility to live at his side in Versailles. But noblemen and noblewomen have to prove their noble origin to obtain this privilege. Montcourt is one of ...

The Queen gave birth to the first royal baby and it triggers some rumors. Besides, Louis XIV's counselors advice him to go to war in order to impose his power. Furthermor ...

In 1667 in France, Louis XIV is a young king who wants to impose his power whereas he is traumatized by the Fronde (the revolt of nobility during Louis XIII's reign) and ...

Paired up by a dating program that puts an expiration date on all relationships, Frank and Amy soon begin to question the system's logic. ...

Bjorn continues his wilderness endurance brilliantly, killing a bear inc lose combat and ice-diving naked, unaware vindictive Erlendur and Kalf hired a berserker to kill ...