[1] It is a modern adaptation of the story of Madame de La Pommeraye from Denis Diderot's Jacques le fataliste (1796) that tells the tale of a man who is tricked into marrying a prostitute.

Her ambition was to become a ballerina at the Opéra, but hard times have fallen on her, and in order to support herself and her mother, she has resorted to dancing in nightclubs and earning money as a prostitute.

He is smitten as soon as he meets Agnès in the Bois de Boulogne, and makes no attempt to learn anything about her, instead relying on Helene's false information.

Agnès had assumed that Hélène had already told Jean the truth, and learning she was tricked, falls in a faint.

Jean, filled with shame, bewilderment and rage, drives off leaving his new bride still in an unconscious state.

Agnès, barely conscious, whispers that she hopes he will forgive her, but it is clear that she will free him by giving up her life.

Bresson and his team had to face numerous power cuts, bombing alerts and various restrictions imposed by the Germans or circumstances.

The actress refused and persisted in batting her eyelashes and wrinkling her nose to make herself cry.

Until the end where, discouraged, exhausted, defeated, almost all the actors abandoned, upon arriving at the studio, everything that could resemble a life of their own or a personal will to drag before our gentle tyrant what he desired: a body, a voice that he had chosen as one buys an object which will adorn a corner of a fireplace well, one thinks, … I have never hated anyone as I hated Robert Bresson on the set.

"[4] Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, while not one of Bresson's better-known films, nonetheless still receives positive reviews.