If anybody wants to explain the extensive, intricate and French governmental aid system for cinema and TV, they could do worse than watch “Versailles,” an English-language Canal Plus Creation Originale and one of the French pay TV operators’s most ambitious series ever, whose third and final season opens Canneseries April 4, before premiering on Canal Plus in France on April 23.Played by George Blagden (“Les Miserables,” “Vikings”), Louis Xiv, the Sun King and still Europe’s longest-reigning monarch, built Versailles, created fashion, forged the identity of France as a byword for culture.
He also created the idea, extended by Napoleon, of a central French state – centralized in his person – which oversaw everything and everyone, to the benefit and glory of France.
Such was his extraordinary legacy, that both ideas – culture, the state – survive until this day.Over 30 hours, in a career milestone, Blagden portrays the complexities of a man who
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