After the defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon had just left power.
Louis XVIII tried a timid return from his Belgian exile. The people of Paris were rumbling, France was on the verge of chaos.
Talleyrand, the man of all powers, of all compromises, of all governments for 25 years, invites Joseph Fouché, the man of all the police, all the repressions, all the executions since the Revolution, to supper.
Who will emerge victorious from this singular combat?