Summary
Amidst the opulent decay of pre-revolutionary France, Jeanne Bécu's serpentine ascent unfolds - a milliner's apprentice transformed through calculated seductions into the comet-like Madame DuBarry. Pola Negri's incarnation devours the screen as she navigates boudoir politics: first entwined with revolutionary idealist Armand (Harry Liedtke), then captivating the gout-ridden Louis XV (Emil Jannings in a masterclass of decaying majesty). Versailles' gilded cage becomes her amphitheater, where silk gowns rustle like conspirators and diamond necklaces hang like future nooses. As bread riots ignite Paris, DuBarry's bedroom influence over royal decrees fuels aristocratic resentment and proletarian fury alike. Her downfall arrives not with a whisper but a roar - dragged from lavish refuge during the Terror, the former royal mistress confronts revolutionary tribunal and blade with shocking dignity, her final walk through jeering crowds an eerie ballet of historical reckoning.
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The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
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