Monsieur Beaucaire (1946 film)

Monsieur Beaucaire
Monsieur Beaucaire
	Robert Emmett Dolan
Production; company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	September 4, 1946;
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$3.5 million (US rentals)

Monsieur Beaucaire is a 1946 American

Louis XV of France.^[2] It is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Booth Tarkington. It is a remake of the 1924 Rudolph Valentino silent film of the same name Monsieur Beaucaire

.

Plot

King

Louis XV of France is invited by his rival King Philip V of Spain

to choose a suitable husband for Philip's daughter, Princess Maria, as a gesture of unity between their two nations. Louis's choice is the Duc le Chandre, but the duke fancies Madame Pompadour, as does the king.

Louis' bumbling barber, Beaucaire, becomes tangled in a web of deceit along with Mimi, a chambermaid he loves. Both end up exiled from France, and after Beaucaire assists the duke in hiding

Madame Pompadour

, all must ward off General Don Francisco, who is planning to overthrow Philip so that he can rule Spain.

After a series of mistakes and misadventures, Beaucaire shows his bravery in a sword fight with Don Francisco, and is rewarded by the duke coming to his rescue.