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The Marquis (2018)
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Overview
Inspired by Jean Teulé’s novel “Le Montespan”, the film depicts the ill-fated passion between the Marquis de Montespan and his wife Athénaïs, a beautiful and ambitious woman who became the mistress of Louis XIV. The marquis dismissed the prestige associated with one’s wife being a lover to the monarch and tried at all costs to reclaim her.