focuses on Clément Lacaze , a sword master and teacher at a fencing school whose nephew gets challenged to a duel by the more experienced Colonel Berchère . Meanwhile, feminist Marie-Rose Astié de Valsayre fights for women’s rights and social change.
From there, I started to read the press from that time, I started to look at the stories about duels and I discovered many, many, many. And slowly the characters came about quite naturally. Then I read about the sword masters. They were like the Marvel superheroes at the time. They were like heroes and people were looking at them like that, because they were courageous and had great strength and power.Through my research in the press, I discovered Mary-Rose.
Now, I guess, what we could say is that instead of going into duels with swords, now you hire lawyers, but it’s the same idea. And then once the duel is done, then the problem was solved. And today with the lawyer it’s supposed to be the same thing. So there was some resonance, which I thought was very interesting.