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.

During a delicate mission for his general, Jacques is arrested and embastished. Suzanne, still in love with him, and now entertained as the widow of Monsieur d'Albergotti, is herself interned when he makes her escape. Jacques takes his turn in turn, and takes refuge in the convent of which Madame de Chateaufort has become absent, where they are getting married. But this escape makes all forgiveness impossible, and the couple seems doomed to live eternally in the asylum of the convent.

Jacques manages to escape and join the team, he will participate in the Dutch campaign. Initiator of the passage of the Rhine, he passes to the exchange of Louis XIV, he has just won, pardon, the rank of colonel, and ennoblement. Her enemies then attempt, by revenge, to kill Suzanne, and poison Madame de Chateaufort by mistake. Jacques moults the poisoner, and can finally envisage a serene future.

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