Jeanne, a young working class girl eager for culture and pleasure, uses her intelligence and attractiveness to climb one by one the rungs of the social ladder. She becomes the favorite of King Louis XV, who, unaware of her status as a courtesan, recovers through her his appetite for life. They fall madly in love. Against all decorum and etiquette, Jeanne moves to Versailles, where her arrival scandalizes the court…