The Marquise de Saint-Ange wants to marry her niece Nicole, but the young girl, put off by the chosen suitor, flees with her friend Jacques.

A group of inhabitants from Ferté-sous-Jouarre decide to spend their jackpot on a three day trip to Paris.

The Baroness de Courtebise presides over an association of mothers-in-law with grievances against their sons-in-law. Armed with her prerogatives, she...

In Paris in 1314, the knight Jean Buridan is in love with Mirtille but the young woman is already coveted by the king's brother.

A viscount is ruined and wants to commit suicide. A young noceur pursued by his creditors is to inherit 60 million on condition that he marries a...

An aristocrat short of the readies, Gontran, is to marry a wealthy girl of common birth; but he has to get rid of his lover.