Young Louis is the consecrated King at Reims, but his power has been confiscated by his mother, Anne of Austria, and the Cardinal, as both doubt his ability to rule France alone.
To prove himself as a man, the young monarch decides to join the war at the head of his armies despite Marie's attempt to stop him due to her bad premonition.
Nevertheless, Anne of Austria and Mazarin put an end to the dream by exiling Marie and persuading the young King to marry the Spanish princess.
He becomes a débauché dallying with various women and forgetting that his people will pay heavy taxes for the construction of his dream palace, the Château de Versailles.
After many events such as the matter of the Man in the Iron Mask and the Poison Affair, Louis attains what he could not achieve with Marie Mancini.