One stormy evening in 1829, the aging writer René de Chateaubriand, takes refuge in a mountain retreat at Cauterets, a small town in the Pyrenees. Here, he meets Léontine de Villeneuve, an aristocratic woman forty years his junior, who ignites his passion and who seems to be as equally attracted to him. Under the watchful gaze of the maître d'hôtel, Chateaubriand embarks on what will be his last great love affair, with a woman he will later refer to in his writings as L'Occitanienne.
Bernard Le Coq
as René de Chateaubriand
Valentine Teisseire
as Léontine de Villeneuve
Roger Souza
as Le maître d'hôtel
Patricia Karim
as La tante
Philippe Vendan-Borin
as Le postillon
Norbert Estèbes
as Le palefrenier
Bernard Faur
as L'oncle Cambon
Léo Cormenier
as Un soupirant
Michel Delsol
as Le comte de Castelbajac
Sébastien Turboust
as Un serveur
Frédéric Aramon
as Porteur 1
Alain Naves
as Porteur 2
