Anne of Austria

Yeah.

All right, principal cast, Charlie Sheen as Aramis, Kiefer Sutherland as Athos, Chris O'Donnell as D'Artagnan, Oliver Platt as Porthos, Tim Curry as Cardinal Richelieu, Rebecca DeMornay as Milady de Winter, Gabrielle Anwar as Queen Anne, Michael Wincott as Roefore, Julie Delphi as Constance, and Hugh O'Connor as King Louis VIII, or The 13th, I think.

For critical reception here, Roger Ebert's review.

He gave the film a mixed review, noting that delightfully lighthearted adventure with energetic performances, but lacked the dramatic weight and sophistication of stronger Dumas adaptations.

His son, Henry II, entrusted the secret of his love cipher to the magnificent bindings in his library, just as he did to the sumptuous decoration of his palaces.

The volumes once owned by Anne d'Autriche still delight the connoisseur by their chaste and noble elegance.

Great lords and statesmen echoed the taste of their sovereigns, and there were as many rich libraries as there were families with shields and escutcheons.

Almost down to our own day, the houses of Guise, d'Herfe, d'Eteux, Richelieu, Mazarin, Bignon, Molé, Pasquier, Sacquier, Colbert, Lamennon, d'Estrées, d'Aumont, d'Avilliers rivaled one another in their treasures of learned and serviceable books.

Well, technically, it was released as D'Artagnan and would be re-released with the more traditional title in 1920.

In this action-packed film, Dorothy Dalton starred as Queen Anne of Austria.

Now, this lost production came before she left Triangle Film Corporation and was eventually signed to Ince Studios.

Now, while Thomas Ince meant to cast her in mature roles, she had always preferred to play ingenues.

The ladies, often at the cost of real self-denial, gave every penny they could afford.

Louis XIII and his queen, Anne of Austria, contributed liberally.

In ten years' time, Vincent's institution had grown to such an extent that it was able to open its doors to all the foundlings in Paris.

Four thousand children had been adopted and cared for, and the numbers were still increasing.

During the last days of the king's life, Vincent never left him, and in his arms Louis XIII breathed his last.

Then, having done the work for which he had come, Vincent slipped quietly out of the palace to hasten back to St. Lazare and his beloved poor.

Some remarks made by the king during his illness and certain other words of Vincent's were remembered by the queen, Anne of Austria, who had been left regent during the minority of her son.

Richelieu was dead, and Mazarin, his pupil, a crafty and unscrupulous Italian, had succeeded him as chief minister of state.

At Richelieu's death the revenue had been anticipated for three years, supplies having been borrowed at exorbitant interests.

Nor can the prodigality of the first year of the regency, when the current phrase, la reine est si bonne, well expressed the incapacity of Anne of Austria to resist the importunity of the courtiers, and when the indispensable support of Orléans and Condé could be secured only by enormous bribes, be laid to his charge.

The state of things that had to be faced at present was that the expenditure which in 1642 was 99 millions of livres had risen in 1644 to 124 millions, of which no less than 59 millions were absorbed by the rapacity of the courtiers and the farmers of the taxes.

But it was the manner in which these sums were raised more than the sums themselves which led to opposition.

Concessions of the Court.

The first or parliamentary period of the Fronde possessed a certain title to respect.

Amid the mob of interested officials, turbulent nobles, intriguing priests and clamorous bourgeois were to be found men who represented the highest type of citizen life whom neither Anne of Austria nor the mob of Paris could terrify nor Mazarin cajole.

And though violence, folly, selfishness, and confusion marked its course, and though all zeal for the welfare of the country was soon forgotten in the indulgence of an unreasoning hate of Mazarin, this movement had nevertheless the merit of attacking, however interestedly and however inopportunely, a taxation that had become ruinous and an administration of reckless waste.

She displayed her marks on her hands, her scars with these names to religious authorities, aristocrats, and even crowds.

In 1638, she was received by the Cardinal Richelieu, King Louis XIII, and Queen Anne of Austria.

There are even claims that Jeanne was even present for the birth of future King Louis XIV that year.

But her hand attracted scrutiny.