- A delegation arrives, but won't negotiate with the queen. Phillipe steps up to act as king while Louis is at battle. Fabien mourns Claudine and seeks to avenge her murder. The king's mistress takes her jealousy too far.
- As Louis triumphs in battle against the Dutch Queen Marie-Therese rules as regent but the poisonings continue though Fabien refuses to return to court. The queen responds to events by closing the salons and severely restricting alcohol, an unpopular move which also affords Philippe kudos when the sultan of Bijapur refuses to discuss trade with a woman and he steps in to secure an agreement. When Claudine becomes the latest victim Fabien strides into Versailles, interrupting a merry-making concert but like the rest of the court he is unaware of a deadly pact between Gaston de Foix and Madame Agathe. Montespan meanwhile does her best to prevent a prospective rival, Isabelle, from becoming a lady-in-waiting to Marie-Therese.—don @ minifie-1
- King Louis wages a war on Dutch territory which even starts a revolution against the republican leadership, but frustratingly that restores the fortune of stadholder William, who turns the tide by opening the floodgates timely, while Louis can barely be dragged from the field after killing on officer in a paranoid rage of panic. Back home, queen Marie-Thérèse terrorizes Versailles with nunnery-austerity, until "raison d'état" requires offering prince Philippe the regency, with various rewards, as only a male Bourbon is acceptable as counterpart in economically vital negotiations which the sultan of wealthy Bijapur (in India). Private intrigues and murders continue at court, so extreme measures are required again.—KGF Vissers
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