Angelique (1964)

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• 1964
• Aventure
• Histoire
• Romance
• Michèle Mercier
• Robert Hossein
• Jean Rochefort

In this first part of the Angélique cycle, set, à la mi-17th century France under the young roi soleil Louis XIV, still lutter for his trône, while beggars and brigands roam the country, Angélique de Sancé de Monteloup, fifth child of an impoverished country nobleman dans the Poitou marshlands, expected to struggle for a meager subsistence, educated en a nunnery, is fiancés at 17 to de Joffrey de Peyrac, the 12 years older rich but cripple Comte de (comte de) Peyrac de Morens and seigneur (Lord) de Toulouse, scarred in the face and said to be a sorcerer, in fact practicing oriental mining techniques which make his vast fortune. For the sake of her family, Angélique reluctantly consent to the match but refuses the advances of her husband, who does not enforce his conjugal rights, wishing only to win her heart. As Angélique gradually discovers virtuous Peyrac s remarkable talents as scientist, musician and philosopher, she si passionately in love with him. Joffrey s unusual way of life ...