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  • The palace of Versailles shall be the heart of our kingdom...

  • with gardens of exquisite and matchless beauty.

  • Heaven shall be here.

  • Are you a believer in order?

  • Order?

  • Over landscape.

  • Well I admire it...

  • This...abundance of chaos.

  • This is your Eden?

  • My search for it.

  • You're inviting new ideas into the gardens. Why?

  • Welcome to Versailles!

  • This project...

  • is it WORTHY of us?

  • She's very clever in what she does, I think.

  • Why me?

  • I want you in my garden.

  • I was curious.

  • I've been issued an invitation to the Louvre.

  • You see how they look at you?

  • Give me a kiss INSTANTLY or I shall take grave offense!

  • I am no one.

  • What could the interest be?

  • You are no one where everybody is someone.

  • What is a woman of such restrained sophistication doing with Andre here?

  • I speak from the opposite end of the fashion scale.

  • A little bit about myself - ANSWER, Madam.

  • Stop me talking!

  • Your majesty.

  • A light, honest scent.

  • Some of the roses seem faded

  • and overblown.

  • That fate awaits all roses, sire.

  • Walk with me.

  • Your wife does not accompany you ever?

  • No.

  • She is very popular

  • she dictates how we live now.

  • There is someone you love?

  • He is the most complete person I know.

  • You look beautiful.

  • Are you flattering me?

  • Is that wrong?

  • You were with that woman...

  • A builder!

  • I am a builder, madam.

  • So be it.

  • We can flood the garden...

  • Do it.

  • Although the elements may treat us poorly

  • in the end we have only our instincts

  • patience

  • care

  • and a little warmth from the sun

  • are our best hope.

The palace of Versailles shall be the heart of our kingdom...

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