In the winter of 1826, a letter concerning the reputation of an ancient family disturbed the sleepy provincial town. Entrusted by the nobles of Angoulême, the young priest set out on his way to the capital of the nineteenth century.
Paris, the capital of France, is the pearl of the 19th century. Poverty and wealth coexist, nobility and despicability coexist, filth hides behind holiness, and beneath the bright and beautiful appearance, there is an endless abyss...