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The film concludes with an epilogue set in , after the French Revolution has swept away the world of Versailles. While many of the courtiers have been exiled or executed, Ponceludon has finally succeeded in draining his swamps, living a life of purpose alongside Mathilde.

: A kindly doctor who becomes Ponceludon’s mentor, teaching him the dangerous verbal games required to survive.

The story follows , a provincial engineer and minor nobleman who travels to Versailles with a desperate mission: to secure royal funding to drain the mosquito-infested swamps of his home region, which are killing the local peasants. Life at Versailles