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Let Them Eat Cake

All Episodes 1999

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  • 1999-09-09T20:30:00Z
  • 30m
  • 3h (6 episodes)
  • Christine Gernon
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy
Let Them Eat Cake is a British sitcom starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders set in France, 1782, just seven years before the French Revolution. It is one of the few programmes in which French and Saunders have appeared which they did not create themselves.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

1999-09-09T20:30:00Z

1x01 The Pox

Series Premiere

1x01 The Pox

  • 1999-09-09T20:30:00Z30m

In 1792 at the Palace of Versailles, Madame de Plonge bets Colombine that she can't seduce the young, handsome Marquis de Bonvie. Lisette suspects that it's all part of a ""setup"" to ruin her mistress and offers to take her place. Columbine learns that her elderly husband, Honore, has caught the pox, and turns it around to her advantage.

1999-09-16T20:30:00Z

1x02 Murder

1x02 Murder

  • 1999-09-16T20:30:00Z30m

Columbine loses her fortune in a wager with the Marquise de Foufou. When the Marquise de Foufou is brutally murdered, Columbine is the prime suspect. But was it murder, or suicide? Justice will prevail, but not until Columbine has her day in court.

1999-09-23T20:30:00Z

1x03 The Portrait

1x03 The Portrait

  • 1999-09-23T20:30:00Z30m

The finest portrait painter in France, Madame Vigee-Lebrun, agrees to paint Columbine's portrait, but the wig must go. Columbine becomes a victim of the Marquis de Sade. Lisette returns to the streets and Bouffant is seduced.

1999-09-30T20:30:00Z

1x04 Making Voopee

1x04 Making Voopee

  • 1999-09-30T20:30:00Z30m

Columbine swears that she has been celibate for eight years. How, then, has she managed to get pregnant? Is King Louis XVI the father? What will Marie Antionette think?

1999-10-07T20:30:00Z

1x05 A Marriage of Convenience

1x05 A Marriage of Convenience

  • 1999-10-07T20:30:00Z30m

Columbine's sister, Cecilie, is destitute and needs help from Columbine. The only help she gets is a suggestion that she should marry the Duke D'Onan, a repulsive man who prefers men to women.

Marie Antoinette intends to prove her love for her husband by having sex with him in public - twice. Columbine intends to use the event as the venue for a final showdown with Madame de Plonge, but she has been invited to the matinee session.

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