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...Robin Hood and Roy Rogers. During the reign of Louis XV, Fanfan (Gérard Philipe) has enough romantic adventures for a couple of action movies: he makes love to the king's pretty daughter and to the voluptuous daughter of a recruiting sergeant, rescues the Marquise de Pompadour from highway robbers, escapes from the hangman's noose by the skin of his profile, brings about the surrender of France's enemies on the battle field by capturing their general staff singlehanded...
Says Ros: "I've played 19 career women and I'm tired of it. After all, you can only get a pompadour so high. The plot was always the same, and I used to even get the same desk in each picture...
...Plans for Pompadour's "Petit Château...
...dining room, a few guest rooms-in a small garden surrounded by a high wall. Even the servants were kept out of sight. The banquet room was equipped with an ingenious table volante, which could be lowered into the cellar, raised up again laden with delicacies. Louis or La Pompadour needed only to scribble a note and punch a bell...
...sometimes fainted at dinner, after stuffing himself to the gills. Sample menu: four soups, three terrines of foie gras, countless hors d'oeuvres, 16 meat courses, partridge, chicken, song birds, pheasant, turkey, squab, 14 desserts, creams and cakes. And Paris had ample evidence that, in her later years, Pompadour turned from mistress to madam, filled the château with a succession of pretty girls to drive away His Majesty's boredom...