Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into Frenc...

French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.

After seven years of marriage, a couple of professional workers (he, a doctor and she, a banker) try to refresh their sex life.