Smiling broadly from behind a tree in the French port city of Saint-Nazaire, the newlyweds could not have looked more conventional.
It was June 29th, 1974 – a sunny Saturday on the Atlantic coast – and the picture shows Joël Le Scouarnec, a 23-year-old trainee surgeon, and his wife, a nursing assistant aged 20 whose maiden name was Marie-France Lhermitte.
She was the daughter of a local docker in the Chantieres de l'Alantique – one of largest shipyards in the world – while his father was a carpenter from Paris.
Ahead of the couple was a high-earning career in medicine, a 15th Century manor house they called home, and three happy and healthy sons.
Except – as a court heard this week – behind the façade of wedded bliss and professional success, there were already deep, dark secrets.
