At that terrible time, when Catholics and Huguenots fought bloody wars among themselves, a girl from an impoverished noble family, Colette, was married to the rich Count de Gramont, a jester at the court of the Prince of Navarre... For the newly-minted countess, a life full of secrets and mysteries began. Why did this strange man marry her if he had never fulfilled his marital duty until now? And where does he disappear every now and then, deceiving everyone that he is sick, and therefore spends several days in his chambers behind tightly locked doors?.. Literary treatment by E. Polyanskaya