Merveilleuse Ang%C3%A9lique

Merveilleuse Anglique is a 1965 French film.

After persuading the owner Matre Bourjus to employ her, Anglique renames the inn Le masque rouge, it is a big hit in Paris. One day she meets her old enemy, Monsieur, brother of the king, accompanied by his noblemen. A tragedy occurs, Le masque rouge burns to the ground and Anglique swears revenge. She calls on her friend Claude le Petit aka Le pote crott. He writes pamphlets in which they accuse the noblemen surrounding Monsieur.The king disapproves what his brother did but he doesnt like what the poet is doing and has him hanged, another death on Angeliques conscience. He sends his best policeman to her, the former lawyer of Jeoffrey, Desgrez, who realises she is planning to kill herself. He promises her a license to make and sell chocolate and 50.000 livres as compensation for the loss of Le masque rouge, on the condition that she accepts that the Poet Crottes death was not her fault and that she stops publishing the remaining pamphlets so that Monsieurs name isnt mentioned. ........

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