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The story of an ambitious but impoverished young man who seduces women of social class in order to improve his own prospects in 19th century France.
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Episode 1
82 mins
A carpenter's son (Ewan McGregor) with aspirations of becoming a priest is taken as a tutor by an aristocratic French family. He imagines himself a soldier of France, taking the late Napoleon as his role model. Under the urging of Napoleon himself he seduces the lady of the house while elevating his status in the local community.





