The mistress of an engineer meets the man's pregnant wife and decides to give up the liaison.
Jeanne supports supports his family on his modest salary. Her boss is arrested for fraud. Jeanne is forced, out of poverty, in the street.
Blanchette, unable to find a job, prostitutes herself in Paris. She then finds the man she loves when her morale is at its lowest.
Angelica Fede Pascal
После смерти матери, разорившейся, чтобы обеспечить сыну достойную женитьбу, молодой, мягкий и слабохарактерный Матиас Паскаль остаётся один с нелюбимой женой и невыносимой тёщей. На время он исчезает, чтобы привести мысли в порядок. Он встречает незнакомца и с его помощью выигрывает в рулетку целое состояние. Возвращаясь домой, Матиас попадает прямиком на собственные похороны (его место в гробу занял утопленник, погибший в случайной драке). Матиас никому ничего не говорит и предпочитает снова исчезнуть.
A young bourgeois lady leaves her husband to spend three passionate, violent days with a criminal she is in love with.
Lucien asks his father for money to support his girlfriend. The father refuses. Lucien's GodMother is found dead.
Mme de Saint-Ermont
A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.
Agathe
Misanthrope Raymond Ferray's life of peace and quiet is disrupted by the arrival of his new neighbors the Rovels. Lady Rovel designs on marrying her daughter Meg to the much older Marquis de Boisgenêt. Her mother agrees not to force her, however, if she can find a suitable alternative. Raymond, who despite himself has taken a great interest in Miss Rovel, helps her to find one.
In Britain, during the revolution, the nephew of the Marquis de Lantenac, Gawain (P. Capellani) befriends Cimourdain (H. Krauss), a priest who follows the precepts of the Revolution. During the Terror, the Marquis went into exile in England while his nephew is a soldier in the Revolutionary Army ...
The vagabond comes to the little village and to the farm of Pierre, where toil Toinon and Francois. There is a plague upon the sheep, and the vagabond pauses in his wanderings to cure the sheep - and win the love of Toinon. But the road calls him, and he goes, leaving the girl broken hearted. Francois marries her, and the child, Toinet, grows to be a lusty lad who loves the daughter of Pierre. Pierre, knowing the secret of his birth, refuses his consent, but again comes the vagabond, and once more his strange spells work for happiness, but he turns his back upon his new found son and the happiness he has wrought. The call of the open road is too strong.
La supérieure du couvent
The story begins with Jean Valjean as a humble worker endeavoring to provide for his invalid mother. They live in a squalid home, made more wretched by his inability to provide sufficient food. He goes out in search of work, but is unsuccessful. Finally, in desperation, he steals a loaf of bread regardless of consequences. He hastens home with it, pursued by a crowd, and gives it to his mother. Valjean is arrested for the theft and sentenced to five years at hard labor.
