Rachel Devirys
Nascimento : 1890-02-28, Simferopol, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire [now Crimea, Ukraine]
Morte : 1983-05-16
Elisabeth (Nicole Stéphane) é muito protetora de seu irmão, Paul (Edouard Dermithe), atingido por uma bola de neve na escola. Os irmãos são inseparáveis e vivem na mesma casa, lutando, jogando, e raramente saem dela. Um dia, Elisabeth, traz para casa Agathe (Renée Cosima) para viver com eles, ela tem uma forte semelhança com Dargelos (Renée Cosima), um estudante por quem Paul estava apaixonado, e que o tinha ferido. Paul e Agathe atraem-se mutuamente, causando ciúmes em Elizabeth.
Rémi sees his marriage troubled by a scandal caused by his former mistress. He takes refuge with his godmother while his wife organizes her revenge.
A gangster, arrested by the police, manages to escape during his transfer to Paris. He takes refuge in the suburbs where his accomplices and his mistress await him.
In his younger days, a dashing officer, Colonel Durand, compromised Madame De Monthieux, who entered a convent. Now, he is garrisoned at Strasbourg.
Mme de Rouvre
Maxime, heir to an old provincial family, is deeply in love with Maud whom he makes his fiancée. But learning that the young girl's life has not always been beyond reproach, he refuses to marry her and returns to his castle in the company of his sister who, happier than him, has met a man worthy of being in Paris. love.
The mistress of the house
Narcisse is a doorman for a jeweler but dreams of becoming a private detective. The Criminas agency hires him and he comes to the aid of his former boss's nephew, accused of stealing jewelry. He first passes for the accomplice of the young man but soon discovers the culprit.
A wife who suspects (wrongly) her husband of infidelity, makes the decision to find herself a lover... Finally, morality will be saved.
la princesse Koupiska
General Mikailoff once killed a lieutenant he mistakenly believed to be his wife's lover. Subsequently, she meets Henri de Cassel, so different from her drunkard husband, becomes his mistress and agrees to flee with him. She is surprised by her husband who, dead drunk, shoots the young man's reflection in the mirror.
Crainquebille, merchant of four seasons, is sentenced to fifteen days in prison for having insulted a police officer. When he leaves, his clientele moves away from him and Crainquebille thinks of suicide, when the affection of a kid from Montmartre makes him change his mind.
Dame Perchuque
Good King Pausole selects a wife for every day in the year, but one protests when he spends her day searching for young Princess Aline who has eloped with Giglio, a visiting airman stranded in the kingdom. Giglio comes from a modern and different world and this gives Queen for a Day some ideas about how to make her title a lasting one.
A gambler has the same name as a billionaire. Suddenly he gets lucky, finds love and wins 24 million.
Tante Warwara
Arianne, a young Russian maid living in France, meets a man twice her age she falls in love with.
Diane
Diana
The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.
A young intellectual, J. Powers, loses his faith in God after the untimely death of his wife. He devotes his great talents to writing a shockingly blasphemous book, debunking all religion, and then embarks on a trip to Jerusalem. Far from reconciling him to God, the sight of all the different sects worshipping in that ancient city only serves to embitter him and deepen his unbelief. One day, wandering in the country, he loses his way and stops to ask directions at a small house. The inhabitants are a poor but devout family whose daughter, Ruth, revives his broken heart. At the risk of losing her, he confesses to her his loss of faith, and she gently declares that meditation on the Gospels will heal him. He sorrowfully tells her that he wishes he could believe as she does, but it is impossible.
Jeanne Dutois
A young boy living in the Swiss Alps struggles to come to terms with his mother's death and his father's remarriage which brings a new mother and step-sister into his family.
François Vidocq has deserted to go back to his wife and kids, so he becomes a thief. Unfortunately, he finds she had become Manon-la-blonde, mistress of a rich man named Ouvrard, and his children have disappeared. He offers his services to the chief of intelligence service and begins a fight against the Aristo, chief of the gang of the children of the sun. After a few years, he dismantles the gang, and finds both his sons. One has become a blackguard, the other a famous organist who is about to be knighted and will soon get married to his beloved.
Directed by Jacques de Baroncelli.
Early musical based on the popular song of the same name.