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 5 - Marriage Of Convenience
The Comtesse de Vache becomes engaged in a competition to find one a wife for a wayward duke known for his "equestrian activities". To do so she must leave the comfort of the palace and enter the squalors where the poor reside to find her sister, Cecille.
Broadcast details
- Date
- 1999
- Channel
- BBC One
Cast & crew
| Dawn French | Lisette |
| Jennifer Saunders | Colombine |
| Adrian Scarborough | Bouffant |
| Stephen Giffin (as Stephen Griffin) | Hunk |
| Louis Hammond | Jacques Montgolfier |
| Louisa Lytton | Little Girl |
| Nina Muschallik | Fifi |
| Matthew Sim | Joseph Montgolfier |
| Kathy Burke | Cecile |
| 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 |