Angélique

In mid-17th century France, young Angélique de Sancé de Monteloup grows up in the Poitou marshlands with a logical destiny that would lead her to marry a poor country nobleman and fight for meager subsistence. Instead, she is betrothed to the rich count Jeoffrey de Peyrac, 12 years her senior, who proves to be a complex and charming husband - scientist, musician, philosopher - whose unusual way of life attracts the jealousy of the young king Louis XIV. When Jeoffrey is arrested and vanishes, Angélique bravely sets out to find him, plunging into the darkness of the Paris underworld in a desperate bid to save her husband from the stake.