Nicolas Phillibert, a Frenchman who fled to America in 1787, hopes to marry a wealthy American heiress, but he's still married to Charlotte in France. To secure a divorce, he must return to France, where he becomes embroiled in the tumultuous French Revolution, caught between royalists and republicans. After many daring escapades, he finds his true love, now married to the skilled sword fighter of the Bourbon family.
Les mariés de l'an deux
A duel in America sets off a chain of events that disrupts a noble's life, leading him to abandon his plans to divorce his wife and instead rekindle their romance as she finds fame.