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Marie Antoinette

Series 1

The Slap

Duration: 55 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

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Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she’s forced to leave Vienna to marry the Dauphin, the heir to the French throne. She must produce a Bourbon heir to secure the alliance between France and Austria, but she is as unprepared for her job as her awkward teenage husband. How will this free spirit react to Versailles, with its complex rules of etiquette? Show less

Contributors

Marie Antoinette:
Emilia Schüle
Louis XV:
James Purefoy
The Dauphin:
Louis Cunningham
Count of Provence:
Jack Archer
Princess of Lamballe:
Jasmine Blackborow
Victoire de France:
Caroline Piette
Adelaide de France:
Crystal Shepherd-Cross
Count of Mercy:
Nathan Willcocks
Director:
Pete Travis

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