The Duchess of Langeais (2007)
General Montriveau, having returned from the Napoleonic Wars in despair, quickly becomes enamored with Duchess Langeais. Across a series of nocturnal visitations, the Duchess mercilessly toys with her hot-tempered suitor, as the machinations of a shadowy conspiracy unfold in the background. paris, france, based on novel or book, general, kidnapping, obsession, secret society, unrequited love, period drama, high society, duchess, 19th century, vengeance, spurned man, convent