33 TV Shows Like Downton Abbey
33 Shows Like "Downton Abbey" to Watch When You Miss the Crawleys
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It doesn't get any more luxurious (or dangerous) than the French court of Versailles, where the "Sun King" Louis XIV reigns amid social turmoil, family drama, and a backstabbing court of ambitious aristocrats and royals. The show picks up while Louis is a young man trying to establish himself and break free of the old-fashioned ways of the old guard in the French court. His solution is to build himself an enormous, magnificent new palace, where he can escape the ghosts of the past and try to create a dynasty that will carry France into the new world.