Director: Christian-Jaque

Cast: Sophia Loren, Robert Hossein, Renaud Mary, Léa Gray, Gianrico Tedeschi

Directed by Christian-Jaque, this 1961 french film carries an IMDb rating of 6.0.

Synopsis

Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated to the nobility along with her man -- cannot keep her frank observations under control.