A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch.
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.
A hairdresser forwards a passionate love letter to her widowed mother.
