A Little Chaos: Madame Dabarra

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A Little Chaos

The film A Little Chaos is about a woman named Madame DaBarra who interviews for a job to help construct plans for Versailles. Madame DaBarra makes a living for herself, for she is a widow. Her husband and daughter died in a carriage accident. In the beginning of the movie, Madame Dabarra travels to be interviewed by Master Le Notre. During the interview Le Notre declines her plans and says they have no order. After the meeting Le Notre looks more at Madame DaBarra's plans and reconsiders her work. He goes and visits her at her home and tells her she got the job. The next day she travels to where she is going to be constructing an outdoor ballroom. She is provided a crew to help her work on the ballroom. But she soon finds out that they had little respect for her and they left her for
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Louis and Madame DaBarra end up spending most of the day talking about flowers and Louis talked to her about how he wants to marry again. The King enjoys Madame Dabarra, by the way she speaks and how kind her words are. After they were finished talking Louis tells Madame DaBarra that it was a pleasure meeting her and that he hoped to see her again soon. Later that day Madame DaBarra was unloading the new plants she had gotten when she got a visit from Madame Le Notre. Madame Le Notre does not like Madame DaBarra because her husband Master Le Notre is growing feelings for Madame DaBarra and Le Notre feels like she is going to lose her husband to Madame DaBarra. Madame Le Notre tries to destroy all of Madame DaBarra's work by having some men open the flood gates and bust open a pipe to flood the whole area. Madame Dabarra and her men stop the flooding before it could do too much damage. In the end of the film, A Little Chaos, Master Le Notre finds one of this wife's gloves on the ground under the mud and knew that she was behind this, so he divorces her and he and Madame DaBarra get together. In the end Madame DaBarra finishes her work and the King and

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