'Rollicks with panache... outstanding light entertainment' - Kevin Jackson, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'Lavish, no-costs-spared... period finery, gorgeous scenery and larger-than-life performances' EMPIRE 'I have not enjoyed a tongue-in-cheek costume romp so much since Depardieu's Cyrano de Bergerac' - Chris Peachment, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Appealing, costumes galore and all the panoply of Parisian life in 1770...' - Geoff Brown, THE TIMES