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Lucien Leuwen, a young polytechnic student from a bourgeois family, is expelled from school after being suspected of being a Saint-Simonian. His father, a very wealthy businessman in Paris, allows him to become a sub-lieutenant, which leads him to move to Nancy. There he meets Madame de Chasteller, a young and charming widow with whom he falls in love.
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When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.