Quai dOrsay 2013 Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is tall and impressive, a man with style, attractive to women He also happens to be the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the land of enlightenment France With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage, from the floor of the United Nations in New York to the powder keg of Oubanga There, he calls on the powerful and invokes the mighty to bring peace, to calm the trigger happy, and to cement his aura of Nobel Peace Prize winner in waiting Alexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with, waging his own war backed up by the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts legitimacy, lucidity and efficacy He takes on American neo cons, corrupt Russians and money grabbing Chinese Perhaps the world doesnt deserve Frances magnanimousness, but his art would be wasted if just restricted to home turf Enter the young Arthur Vlaminck, graduate of the elite National School of Administration, who is hired as head of language at the foreign ministry In other words, he is to write the ministers speeches But he also has to learn to deal with the sensibilities of the boss and his entourage, and find his way between the private secretary and the special advisers who stalk the corridors of the Quai dOrsay the ministrys home where stress, ambition and dirty dealing are the daily currency But just as he thinks he can influence the fate of the world, everything seems threatened by the inertia of the technocrats