History Main / TheCavalierYears

*** ''Film/TheIronmask'' (1929)
** ''Film/TheIronMask'' (1929)

* Film adaptations of ''Franchise/TheThreeMusketeers'', naturally.

** ''Film/{{The Man in the Iron Mask|1929}}'' (1929)

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* The ''Film/CarryOn'' films usually created parodies of popular media and/or historical farces. For example, ''Film/CarryOnDick'' is set in the early 18th century with the famous English highwayman Dick Turpin, who annoyed the secret police and [[GentlemanThief charmed]] the [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys young ladies]], mostly because he was [[AllWomenAreLustful nicknamed]] "[[DoubleEntendre Big Dick]]". [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer We are not joking]].
* ''The Dueling Cavalier'' (renamed ''The Dancing Cavalier'' when it was {{retool}}ed into a musical), the movie being made in ''Film/SinginInTheRain''.

* ''Film/CaptainBlood'' is set in this period, during the reigns of James II and William III.
* Disney's ''{{WesternAnimation/Pocahontas}}'' takes place at the beginning of this era, as does, of course, any other adaptation of the {{UsefulNotes/Pocahontas}} story.

* ''Series/{{Versailles}}''

The favorite era for the {{Swashbuckler}}, the 17th Century is the age in Europe when lusty musketeers dueled with each other and got sucked into intrigues involving dauphins, {{Corrupt Church}}men and [[TheVamp vampish]] courtesans. [[NiceHat Hats]] with [[FluffyFashionFeathers large feathers]] and big bucket-topped boots were in fashion for men. Also UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfPiracy [[{{Pirate}} on the High Seas]], when [[DressedToPlunder eyepatched and peg-legged]] buccaneers buried stolen gold, brandished cutlasses, and tied up buxom, bodice-wearing maidens and then forced them to watch as their hapless boyfriends walked the plank.

* TheHighwayman: Earlier, they were just bandits; much later, they had organised police forces to worry about. But in this period, they got the big pistols and the {{nice hat}}s.

* NiceHat: Plumed bicorne and tricorne hats were the rage everywhere, especially for men, complete with periwig.

* The French comic ''ComicBook/DeCapeEtDeCrocs'', which makes a good work in giving a feeling of being a piece of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque Baroque]] literature. Think of Creator/TerryGilliam's ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', except [[UpToEleven wackier]].

* Creator/JeanMarais starred in quite a few swashbuckler films set in France in this era such as ''La Tour, prends garde!'', ''Film/{{Le Bossu|1959}}'', ''Film/LeCapitan'', ''Film/LeCapitaineFracasse'' and ''Film/{{The Iron Mask|1962}}''.

* LandOfTulipsAndWindmills: For the Dutch, the 17th century was their Golden Age economically and culturally.

* ''Film/QueenChristina'' was set during the reign of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Queen Christina of Sweden]] of [[UsefulNotes/NotableSwedishMonarchs the House of Vasa]], played by Creator/GretaGarbo. Not necessarily historically accurate,

* ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''

* SpotOfTea: Tea-loving Queen Catherine of Braganza, the wife of Charles II of England, was the TropeMaker of this British stereotype, as she was the one who introduced tea to Britain.

See also the Edo Period of JidaiGeki, the Japanese equivalent coinciding with this era. Also coinciding in this era are UsefulNotes/TheThirteenAmericanColonies across the pond. The later years of UsefulNotes/TheProtestantReformation overlaps with the time period, and religious warfare is often a background feature in the swashbuckling plots of this setting.

* MusicOfNote: The era of BaroqueMusic and ClassicalMusic, though several of what we now consider to be the standouts were only later VindicatedByHistory. The soundscape of early 18th Century Europe had a lot more Telemann and a lot less Bach than a modern listener would expect, for instance. In Britain, the music of Henry Purcell, Jeremiah Clarke, and Georg Friedrich Handel dominated the local musical scene. Towards the end of the era, Austria became a center for new composers.

* MustHaveCaffeine: Coffee production and sales skyrocketed during this era. The first coffeehouse in England was started by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasqua_Rosée an Armenian man]], and the distinctive Viennese caf was started by a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Franciszek_Kulczycki a Polish nobleman]], who made use of the coffee bags left by the defeated Ottomans after the siege of Vienna in 1683. Coffeehouses became a hangout for intellectual minds whose ideas that would kickstart UsefulNotes/TheEnlightenment.

Back on mainland Europe the UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar was fought; France, Sweden, and Austria contended over the UsefulNotes/HolyRomanEmpire, hastening its long, painful decline. East of Germany, rowdy Polish nobility alternated between fighting in perpetual wars against Sweden, Muscovy and Turkey, and generally making a mess around themselves. More to the west, the Dutch had an economic and cultural boom, ushering in their Golden Age which lasted a whole century.

* MustHaveCaffeine: Coffee production and sales skyrocketed during this era. The first coffeehouse in England was started by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffeehouse an Armenian man]], and the distinctive Viennese café was started by a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Franciszek_Kulczycki a Polish nobleman]], who made use of the coffee bags left by the defeated Ottomans after the siege of Vienna in 1683. Coffeehouses became a hangout for intellectual minds whose ideas that would kickstart UsefulNotes/TheEnlightenment.

* MustHaveCaffeine: Coffee production and sales skyrocketed during this era. The first coffeehouse in England was started by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffeehouse an Armenian man]], and the distinctive Viennese café was started by a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Franciszek_Kulczycki a Polish nobleman]], who made use of the coffee bags left by the defeated Ottomans after the siege of Vienna in 1683. Coffeehouses became a hangout for intellectual minds whose ideas that would kickstart [[UsefulNotes/TheEnlightenment]].

* SpotOfTea: Tea-loving Queen Catherine of Braganza, the wife of Charles II of England, was the TropeMaker of this British stereotype.

* MustHaveCaffeine: Coffee production sales skyrocketed during this era.

See also the Edo Period of JidaiGeki, the Japanese equivalent coinciding with this era. Also coinciding in this era are UsefulNotes/TheThirteenAmericanColonies across the pond.

* EvilJesuit: [[HeroWithBadPublicity How they were viewed]] at the time, to the point that they were expelled in 1767.

* TheDungAges: The 17th and 18th centuries were the age when bathing was shunned by most European people, up to Kings. During the same age, the perfume industry flourished in France.

* RealIsBrown: Much of the overall palette of the Baroque era consist of warm and earnest muted colors from the leather cavalier gear, to the modest Puritans, to Creator/AnthonyVanDyck's paintings, where [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Dyke_brown a shade of brown]] was even named after him.