Please answer the following question: Build a movie plot around this: Royer-Collard,(Michael Caine), travels to the Panthemount Convent in Paris for who? Simone
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Quills begins in Paris during the Reign of Terror, with the incarcerated Marquis de Sade penning a story about the libidinous Mademoiselle Renard, a ravishing young aristocrat who meets the preeminent sadist in her executioner.Several years later, the Marquis is confined to the asylum for the insane at Charenton, overseen by the enlightened Abbe du Coulmier. The Marquis has been publishing his work through laundress Madeleine "Maddy" LeClerc, who smuggles manuscripts through an anonymous horseman to a publisher. The Marquis' latest work, Justine, is published on the black market to great success. Emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte orders all copies of the book to be torched and the author shot, but his advisor, Delbene, tempers this contentious idea with one of his own: send alienist Dr. Royer-Collard to assess Charenton and silence the Marquis. Meanwhile, the Abbe teaches Madeleine to read and write and resists his growing attraction to her. Madeleine reads the Marquis de Sade's stories to her fellow workers. Whilst Madeleine is fascinated by the Marquis de Sade she remains reluctant to give into his advances. The Abbe and Marquis converse on the Marquis' inappropriate advances on young women.Dr. Royer-Collard arrives, informing the Abbe that the Marquis' "therapeutic writings" have been distributed for public consumption. He presents the Abbe with the ultimatum of silencing the Marquis or Charenton will be shut down by order of the Emperor. The Abbe rejects Royer-Collard's offers of several aggressive archaic "treatments" and asks to speak with the Marquis himself, who promptly swears obedience (winking at Madeleine through a peephole). Royer-Collard takes his leave for the time being and travels to the Panthemont Convent in Paris to retrieve his promised bride, the underage orphan Simone. They are given a run-down chateau by the Emperor, with a handsome young architect, Prouix, on hand for its renovation.The hasty marriage incites much gossip at the asylum, prompting the Marquis to write a farce to be...