A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him. A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him. A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him. A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him.