Paris, nowadays in the french high society
As a revenge on Charles Gercourt, Isabelle Merteuil challenges her ex-lover Sébastien Valmont to seduce Cécile Volanges, Gercout's fiancee who have been educated according to the principles of Catholic fondamentalists.
Valmont first refuses, as he's in Burgundy, invited at Madeleine Rosemonde's place trying to seduce Marie Tourvel, invited to. After failing due to Astride Volanges' (Cecile's mother) warnings to Tourvel, he ends up accepting and come back in Paris.
As Cécile being in love with Raphael Danceny, a young officer of the french army, Merteuil helps her complicit n'y maniplulating the two youngsters.
