With the very malleable Louis XIII (Graham Armitage) on the French throne, his minister Cardinal Richelieu (Christopher Logue) has decided to cement the regal authority by ensuring that all of the hitherto autonomous towns of the realm have their fortifications demolished. The one fly in his plague-ridden ointment is a town run by it's charismatic priest "Fr. Grandier" (Oliver Reed). It seems the only way his eminence can get his way is to discredit this, admittedly rather errant, man of the cloth. To that end, he despatches the "Baron De Laubardemont" (Dudley Sutton) to discredit this man. Un…
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