Novelist Elena Maria Vidal reports on a French television drama based on the downfall of King Louis XVI,
L'évasion de Louis XVI. Herself the author of the novel
Trianon, a sympathetic account of King Louis's marriage to Marie-Antoinette of Austria, Miss Vidal praises the drama's attempts to show the doomed monarch in a more positive light.
You can watch the trailer for
L'évasion de Louis XVI here and read this blog's review of Miss Vidal's novel
here.
Thank you, Gareth. Such films are frustrating because they have so much potential to be GREAT but still fall short of the mark.
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