The Marquise de Sévigné would not exist today without her daughter. Karin Viard lends her features to the writer who transcended, in his correspondence, his excessive tenderness towards his daughter, the Countess of Grignan.
An evocation far from the living rooms. In the background lies a troubled era, spared neither wars nor political dissensions. Their echoes reach the Carnavalet hotel or the Château des Rocteau in Brittany, when her son Charles comes to see her.