The Nude Virginie Ledwien(0:40)

On July 14, 1789, crowds of rebels took the Bastille, but the brilliant Versailles was still trying to defend its royal splendor in the path of the hurricane. A screen adaptation of Chantal Tom's novel of the same name, written in the form of memoirs by Sidoni Laborde - the court reader of Marie Antoinette on July 14, 15 and 16, 1789. About the days when the Bastille was destroyed and the National Guard was established, when the bloody revolution began and the halls of the luxurious palace were empty, when the retinue and servants left their Queen. 21 years later, in Vienna, Agatha Sidoni Laborde looks back and remembers the..