The Marquise de Solange looks in the countryside for pretty girls she can take with her to Paris and present as her nieces. In this way the farmer?s daughter Marie Callière arrives in the French capital and gains the favour of Louis XIV, who makes her one of his mistresses. Marie dreams of taking the place of the current royal mistress La Vallière, whose popularity is waning.
But then the nobleman Tristan de Rossac arrives in Versailles. A man who has no respect for anything or anyone, not even for the property of the King ...
