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The story of a young Louis XIV on his journey to become the most powerful monarch in Europe, from his battles with the fronde through his development into the Sun King. Historical and fictional characters guide

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Versailles Season 3 Episode 6 - The Wheel of Fortune
    3.0/10(4 votes)

    #1 - The Wheel of Fortune

    S3:E6

    Louis changes tactics to counter Leopold, but he discovers a new opponent with Cardinal Leto, attending the funeral of the Queen. Meanwhile, Philippe discovers the unthinkable on the man with the iron mask.

    Director:Edward Bazalgette
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Versailles Season 3 Episode 3 - The Truth Will Burst
    3.2/10(4 votes)

    #2 - The Truth Will Burst

    S3:E3

    In Paris, Fabien finds it difficult to maintain order. At court, Louis rejects Maintenon when his troubled past is exposed to the light. Philippe is attacked after spotting the man with the iron mask. At the Vatican, Cardinal Leto wishes to hand over the King of France in his place.

    Director:Richard Clark
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Versailles Season 3 Episode 8 - Of Gods and Men
    3.5/10(4 votes)

    #3 - Of Gods and Men

    S3:E8

    While Philippe wants to send the man with the iron mask to the colonies, Louis knows that it must be eliminated. Meanwhile, the revolt rages in the streets of Paris, and the loyalty of Fabien is put to the test in the face of the violence of the King. Leto takes advantage of Louis' weakness and the threat of excommunication.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Versailles Season 3 Episode 2 - Trust Issues
    4.0/10(4 votes)

    #4 - Trust Issues

    S3:E2

    Louis and Leopold compete for control of Spain, and Maria Theresa plays a dangerous game by supporting her lover rather than her husband. Philippe continues his investigation on the man with the iron mask. In the salon, the position of Maintenon, the king's pious favorite, is threatened. In Paris, the people refuse to pay taxes.

    Director:Richard Clark
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Versailles Season 3 Episode 7 - The Book of Revelations
    4.0/10(4 votes)

    #5 - The Book of Revelations

    S3:E7

    The burning question remains: who is the man with the iron mask? Leto decides to bring the man with the iron mask to Versailles, but Bontemps feels the danger. With the help of Fabien, he removes the prisoner and brings him to Louis and Philippe. The truth is finally revealed.

    Director:Edward Bazalgette
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Versailles Season 3 Episode 4 - Crime and Punishment
    4.2/10(4 votes)

    #6 - Crime and Punishment

    S3:E4

    Louis has Marie-Therese confined to the castle, suspecting her of conspiring against him with Leopold. Louis raises indignation by imprisoning a prominent Protestant philosopher. In Paris, Fabien is released in exchange for prisoners, but Louis asserts his authority by having one of them executed as an example.

    Director:Richard Clark
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Versailles Season 2 Episode 3 - Who Will Guard the Guards Themselves?
    4.7/10(9 votes)

    #7 - Who Will Guard the Guards Themselves?

    S2:E3

    A cool welcome awaits Princess Palatine both in the palace salons and her new husband's bed, but Sophie's destiny is worst. Marchal finds a prime suspect for the poisonings.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Versailles Season 2 Episode 2 - A Still Small Voice
    4.9/10(9 votes)

    #8 - A Still Small Voice

    S2:E2

    The King's bed example is blamed for the nobility's immorality, fuelled by illicit love potions and powders. Philippe must meet his new bride. Another victim of poisoning confounds Marchal.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Versailles Season 3 Episode 5 - The Afterlife
    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #9 - The Afterlife

    S3:E5

    Maintenon returns to the palace and encourages Louis to put his plans into action. Louis wants to discredit Leopold, and makes a secret pact with Barek, the Ottoman emissary. Philippe understands that the Church is at the origin of the conspiracy of the man in the iron mask, and suspects Louis to take part. Marie-Thérèse falls seriously ill.

    Director:Edward Bazalgette
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Versailles Season 3 Episode 9 - The Tinderbox
    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - The Tinderbox

    S3:E9

    Fabien knows Louis has killed the prisoner and deduces the truth about the Man in the Iron Mask. Philippe decides to leave the court. Leto convinces Maintenon to support the marriage of Louis and the Infanta Isabella. But against all odds, Louis marries Maintenon and proclaims himself head of the Church of France. Louis accelerates his campaign of expansion in Europe and persecutes the Protestants.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Versailles Season 3 Episode 10 - The Legacy
    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - The Legacy

    S3:E10

    After crushing the Protestants and thwarted Leto, Louis feels invincible. But his family and France are divided. What to expect from the future? What will be his legacy? Louis summons the Dauphin to show him how to be a good king. Louis decides to go to Paris to bless the sick. He does not know that the rebels fomented an attack for the murder...

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Versailles Season 2 Episode 6 - The Sands of Time
    5.1/10(8 votes)

    #12 - The Sands of Time

    S2:E6

    A delegation arrives, but won't negotiate with the queen. Phillipe steps up to act as king while Louis is at battle. Fabien mourns Claudine and seeks to avenge her murder. The king's mistress takes her jealousy too far.

    Director:Mike Barker
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Versailles Season 1 Episode 4 - The Road
    5.2/10(10 votes)

    #13 - The Road

    S1:E4

    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 likely suspect, aiming to trap the murderers. Philippe is declared a hero, following his actions at the siege of Cambrai and Louis sends his brother's lover the Chevalier to join him though not before Chevalier has played the king's mistresses against him as several ambitious women arrive at court. Louis visits his brother on the eve of a battle and is taught that, of the two of them, Philippe is clearly the better soldier.

    Director:Christoph Schrewe
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Versailles Season 1 Episode 2 - I Am the State
    5.3/10(11 votes)

    #14 - I Am the State

    S1:E2

    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. Furthermore, Louis XIV's brother Philippe dreams of glory and wants to be on the field of the future battles.

    Director:Jalil Lespert
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Versailles Season 1 Episode 3 - Mirror for Princes
    5.3/10(11 votes)

    #15 - Mirror for Princes

    S1:E3

    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 them, but he can't prove his noble rank. Then, Montcourt meets a strange Duke called Cassel to help him. Besides, Louis XIV asks the Queen to welcome Annaba, an African prince.

    Director:Christoph Schrewe
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Versailles Season 1 Episode 5 - Bow to Your King
    5.3/10(10 votes)

    #16 - Bow to Your King

    S1:E5

    Philippe returns to Versailles, a super-confident war hero, ready to challenge his brother as the peace treaty with Spain is signed. Louis plans a celebratory party but the attacks on the highway continue and Fabien believes there could be another attempt to kill Louis. Suspicious of Cassel, who refuses to attend the party,as being behind the attacks, the king sends glamorous mistress Athenais de Montespan, accompanied by naive young Sophie de Clermont, to tell Cassel that he must turn up or host it at his own expense. Dangling Sophie as bait Athenais succeeds in forcing Cassel's attendance and obeisance to the king. However the sound of fireworks has a traumatic effect on Philippe, recalling gunfire whilst Sophie shocks her ambitious mother with an unwise liaison and Cassel returns to what is left of his home to find the king has well and truly beaten him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Versailles Season 2 Episode 1 - The Labyrinth
    5.3/10(9 votes)

    #17 - The Labyrinth

    S2:E1

    Though his palace continues to expand and receive admiration from around the world, Louis is still plagued by nightmares.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Versailles Season 2 Episode 10 - Of Blood and Stone
    5.3/10(9 votes)

    #18 - Of Blood and Stone

    S2:E10

    The affair of the poisons continues. Could it even reach deep into Louis's own court?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Versailles Season 3 Episode 1 - Smoke and Mirrors
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Smoke and Mirrors

    S3:E1

    Louis welcomes Leopold, the Emperor vanquished of the Holy Empire, to Versailles. Philip, victorious in the war, was given the task of selecting prisoners to deport them to the colonies. But the presence of a mysterious prisoner with a masked face awakens his suspicions.

    Director:Richard Clark
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Versailles Season 1 Episode 1 - Welcome to Versailles
    5.8/10(13 votes)

    #20 - Welcome to Versailles

    S1:E1

    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 despite the attacks of conspirators. Then, Louis XIV decides to establish the seat of the power out of Paris, in Versailles. At that time, Versailles is just a hunting lodge but Louis XIV radically wants to transform this castle.

    Director:Jalil Lespert
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Versailles Season 2 Episode 4 - Miasma
    6.1/10(7 votes)

    #21 - Miasma

    S2:E4

    Madeleine de Foix is arrested as the poisoner after trying to kill Fabien. Montespans baby suffers an illness. Louis faces criticism from Bossuet and Pascal. Sophie endures a terrifying experience when married to Cassel.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Versailles Season 1 Episode 6 - Invalides
    6.4/10(14 votes)

    #22 - Invalides

    S1:E6

    Ex-soldiers working on construction at the palace feel aggrieved at their treatment and down tools. On advice from gardener and confidant Jacques, who suggests a war hero act as intermediary, Louis is nonetheless jealously intransigent when Philippe offers his services. The king's bullying also extends to his refusal to allow ex-mistress Louise de la Valliere to leave for a convent whilst Athenais conducts her own agenda and Cassel, his home burned to the ground, is forced to move into the palace from where he continues to scheme. Louis is ultimately forced to bring Philippe in for a public relations exercise as he breaks the strike, after which Philippe makes his own plans to leave Versailles.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Versailles Season 2 Episode 7 - A Night
    6.4/10(7 votes)

    #23 - A Night

    S2:E7

    Louis meets Guillaume d'Orange in a relentless combat and returns to Versailles full of new energy. The court is in shock of two new deaths and Montespan feels herself increasingly isolated.

    Director:Mike Barker
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Versailles Season 2 Episode 8 - The New Regime
    6.4/10(7 votes)

    #24 - The New Regime

    S2:E8

    Louis ends his relationship with Madame De Montespan who full of humiliation turns to dark forces. Palatine is suffering of suspected poisoning and Cassel reveals Thomas' secret plans to the king.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Versailles Season 2 Episode 9 - Seven Shadows
    6.4/10(7 votes)

    #25 - Seven Shadows

    S2:E9

    Louis has Phillipe get close to the spy. This ignites the Chevalier's jealousy. Fabien learns what Father Etienne does with the children he rescues. Montespan is desperate to reclaim the king's love, but Louis falls for someone more pious.

    Director:Unknown
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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Wheel of Fortune" is the worst rated episode of "Versailles". It scored 3/10 based on 4 votes. Directed by Edward Bazalgette and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/7/2018. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Truth Will Burst".