Release, runtime and language

1961 · 98 mins · French

Directed by

Christian-Jaque

Starring

Sophia Loren, Carlo Giuffrè, Marina Berti, Ida Galli, Robert Hossein, Julien Bertheau

Catherine Hubscher, who once laundered the shirts of young Napoleon and his troops during the Revolution, falls for Sergeant Lefebvre. When Lefebvre is elevated to the nobility and appointed by Napoleon as the ruler of a vast fief, Madame Sans‑Gene, now a noble herself, struggles to temper her blunt commentary about the new order.