Béatrice

Beatrice is a penniless widow who tries everything to get closer to her distant cousin, Chevalier, who she plans to use as a springboard to wealth and stature. Her trump card in this quest is her beautiful daughter, Sophie, "the fairest of all" at the court of Versailles. Beatrice is a secretive and manipulative woman. Fabien, blinded by passion, does not realise at first the true nature of his sulphurous conquest…