Once a Huguenot, Marquis Sylvain de Bois Doré was converted to catholicism at the same time as King Henri IV, whose campaigned he shared. He now leads a comfortable life in his castle. A connoisseur of the good things in life, Bois Doré loves hunting, good food and even, occasionally, his servant girls... But what nobody knows is that he has a human foible named Lauriane. She is thirty years younger than him and he has been in love with her - quite unreasonably - since she was a child...