Let Them Eat Cake. Image shows from L to R: Lisette (Dawn French), Colombine (Jennifer Saunders), Bouffant (Adrian Scarborough). Copyright: Tiger Aspect Productions
Let Them Eat Cake
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 1999
- 6 episodes (1 series)
Let Them Eat Cake, starring French & Saunders, is set mostly in and around the Palace of Versailles in the year 1782. Also features Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Adrian Scarborough, Alison Steadman, Lucy Punch and Elizabeth Berrington
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 2 - Murder
News beings to circulate throughout the palace that the Comtesse de Vache has lost her entire fortune to the Marquise de Frou Frou in a wager: who between them has the larger cleavage. When the Marquise is discovered murdered - hacked in to fourteen or so pieces - all eyes turn to Colombine as the likeliest suspect.
Broadcast details
- Date
- 1999
- Channel
- BBC One
Cast & crew
| Dawn French | Lisette |
| Jennifer Saunders | Colombine |
| Adrian Scarborough | Bouffant |
| Alison Steadman | Madame de Plonge |
| Lucy Punch | Eveline |
| Simon Butteriss | Coco Lebiche |
| Jake Nightingale | Didier |
| Nicholas Rowe | Julian Desire |
| Linda Spurrier | 1st Aristocratic Woman |
| Margaret Whiting (as Maggie Whiting) | 2nd Aristocratic Woman |
| Peter Learmouth | Writer |
| Christine Gernon | Director |
| Christopher Skala | Producer |
| Jon Plowman | Executive Producer |
| Peter Bennett-Jones | Executive Producer |
| Peter Learmouth | Associate Producer |
| Rachel Salter | Line Producer |
| Mark Lawrence | Editor |
| Dennis De Groot | Production Designer |
| Debbie McWilliams | Casting Director |
| Sarah Burns | Costume Designer |
| Lynda Armstrong | Make-up Designer |
| Chris Kempton | Lighting Designer |
| Will Charles | Lighting Designer |
| Nick Bicât | Composer |
| Sally Cooper | Production Manager |
| Peter Learmouth | Creator |