Échec au roy (1945)
Directed by Jean-Paul Paulin

Film Synopsis

Madame de Maintenon, the founder of the Saint-Cyr school for daughters of the nobility, takes it upon herself to find a husband for her adopted daughter, Jeannette de Pincre.  The man she has in mind is the young Viscount Haussy de Villefort, but King Louis XIV prefers that Jeanette should marry the more mature Duke de Montgobert.   Jeannette feels that she is too young to marry, and when she confides her misgivings in her friend La Verdure, the gardener of Saint-Cyr, he lets slip that the Viscount has been having an affair with the actress Adrienne Lecouvreur.  At her first meeting with Villefort, Jeannette is so rude to Villefort that he decides to give up his suit.  After a duel with Montgobert, the Viscount is commanded by the King to join his regiment in Flanders, but before he goes he decides that he must marry Jeannette at any cost...