Versailles' Dirty Secrets

10.0

2016

0h 52m

Released

DocumentaryTV Movie

The chateau of Versailles is believed to have been a dirty palace: a place where everyone tossed the contents of their chamber pots from the windows above… Yet during the chateau’s construction, Louis XIV had given thought to commodities, and several public latrines were built as well as a very modern water system. So where did this bad reputation come from?

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Director: Julia Bracher

Cast: Mathieu Da Vinha, Georges Vigarello, Anne Forray-Carlier, Denis Bruna, Hélène Delalex, Évelyne Lever, Stéphanie Fatout