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Louis is a patriarch, gatekeeper, and taxonomist, steeped in a tradition of measurement and naming. The eponymous chevaliere is portrayed collectively by Charlie, Lu, and Andrea, young adults who are under Louis’s watch. They feel themselves limited by his expectations, and are bound to the structure of the Estate. This is a film about leaving home.
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Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.

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