In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of Charles-Quint, with the Constable de Bourbon on their side. His mother, regent of the kingdom, commissioned the king's loyal equerry, Antoine de Montpezat, to raise a ransom of two million ecus and send it to Madrid. Despite the treachery of Vandoeuvre, governor of Languedoc and supporter of the connétable de Bourbon, who has his eye on the French throne, Montpezat accomplishes his mission and is reunited with his fiancée, who had almost married the traitor Vandoeuvre.
Cast
Jean-Claude Pascal
Antoine de Montpezat
Valérie Lagrange
Anne de Guize
Madeleine Robinson
Louise de Savoie
John Justin
Vandoeuvre
Claude Titre
François 1st
Antoine Balpêtré
Bishop
Michel Galabru
Alchemist
Rellys
Clotaire
Scilla Gabel
Béatrice
René Génin
Peasant
Jacqueline Riche
Perrine, Béatrice's servant
Pierre Stéphen
Unknown
Albert Dagnant
Pablo
Jacques Degor
Unknown
Philippe Dumat
Unknown
Georges Lycan
Walter, man of Vandoeuvre
François Florent
Unknown
Jacques Porteret
Unknown
Jean Brunel
Unknown
Jacques Le Rumeur
Unknown
Jackie Blanchot
Darcan, man of Vandoeuvre
Claude Carliez
Weapons master
Roger Trécan
Weapons master
Luc Andrieux
Gold conveyor (uncredited)
Joé Davray
(uncredited)
Sylva Koscina
(uncredited)
Robert Le Béal
(uncredited)
