Costume Designer Pierre-Jean Larroque created about five hundred different costumes, including twenty for Romain Duris and eighteen for Dame Kristin Scott Thomas. He took his inspiration from real-life historical figures such as la comtesse de Greffuhle, la Cassati, la comtesse de Castiglione.
Final theatrical movie of Philippe Lemaire (Le cardinal d'Etigues).
This movie contains more than four hundred visually modified shots.
Finnish censorship visa #202874 delivered on May 26, 2006.
In Italy, this movie was not released theatrically, despite a September 2005 announcement. Instead, it appeared directly on DVD on November 23, 2005.