Célimène et le Cardinal

Because here is Alceste in the very comfortable situation of a man cut off from the world, but holding this world in his iron fist: in the 18th century, the power of a prelate is considerable. 20 years later, he invites himself to his former lover's house to find a pretty forty-year-old, who, far from the Court that she "betrayed" by marrying a bourgeois, seems perfectly happy with her four children.

But what did Mazarin's equal come to do with this ordinary mother? Save her! Because he...