Benjamin Lavernhe

The life of Jeanne Bécu who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.

To pay off her father's debts, Marie de Heredia marries the poet Henri de Regnier, but it is Pierre Louÿs whom she loves, a poet who is also an erotomaniac and a great traveler. It is with him that she will live an initiation to love and eroticism through the photographic and literary link that they invent together.