Beautiful rose

at 18, Jacques asks Suzanne in marriage but his father refuses, because he is not rich enough and is not noble. Suzanne and Jacques promise to wait. Jacques leaves for Paris and becomes brilliant under the name of Belle-Rose. Suzanne is married with his father to Monsieur d'Albergotti, while Jacques is an affair with the influential Madame de Chateaufort, who himself gets an acquittal in extremis, when he is sentenced to death for desertion, and the rank of Lieutenant. He will become captain, participating in the order of the general of Luxembourg to the campaign of Flanders.