Raymond Girard

Действие происходит в 1719 году, в предреволюционной Франции, спустя четыре года после смерти Людовика XIV, когда страной фактически правил Филипп Орлеанский, являвшийся регентом при малолетнем Людовике XV. Гуманный регент старается обеспечить своим подданным достойную жизнь и предотвратить восстание крестьян, но он понимает, что не имеет реальной королевской власти. Он пытается заручиться поддержкой священника, но тот заботится только о себе. Регент тяжело переживает смерть своей полубезумной дочери, в инцестной связи с которой его подозревали. Обязанность отдать приказ о казни группы революционеров также приводит его в шок. И только женщины - его слабость - доставляют Филиппу неизменную радость.

Jacques Montet, a successful crime story writer, has already written a hundred books and would like to call it quits now to devote himself to loftier writing. But his wife, a cold-hearted, money-minded, bossy woman won't allow. All the more as she is the one who supplies Jacques with the plots of his detective stories. When Jacques, yearning for true love, meets young, pretty Muriel, he can't stand the situation any longer. Fortunately - for him - the plot of the 101st detective story imagined by his wife is about a ... perfect crime. He simply has to follow her instructions to ... get rid of her. Everything goes according to plan until Jacques discovers a scary detail: the presence of a mysterious witness on the scene of the crime.

Armand Varescot, a rich and tyrannical old man, is killed by his young and pretty secretary, Caroline, while he was trying to abuse her. To avoid scandal, his granddaughter Marie Varescot convinces Frank, his cousin, to take responsibility for this "accidental" death, he who is in love with Caroline. But Commissioner Legrand, who has designs on Marie, only agrees to close the affair if Marie marries her, and if Frank leaves with Caroline, abandoning his share of the inheritance. The arrangement is accepted and life goes on.

Заблудившись в лесу по пути домой, крестьянин Адемай вытаскивает пограничный столб. В спешке он устанавливает его задом наперёд. Это влечёт за собой бесконечные стычки на границе. Конфликт нарастает и приводит к войне между граничащими странами, что создаёт проблемы и Адемаю…

When he finds a package in the metro, given this period of restrictions, Mr. Truche thinks it may be a good deal, he takes it home but discovers a woman's head inside. A friend of Mr. Truche having just disappeared, the superintendent accuses her of having murdered her and discovers the head buried in his cellar. But the girlfriend, whom Mr. Truche loves platonically, returns from the countryside and at the same time we spot the assassin of the unknown woman.

During the Great War, in Austria, an officer was shot on the orders of his superior von Pennwitz. Out of revenge, his widow becomes a spy in the pay of France, preoccupied with removing the person responsible for her husband's death. In charge of a mission to von Pennwitz, she suddenly finds herself face to face with her husband, who is still alive. It was a ruse of war to deceive the enemy. It is only at the armistice that the couple will be able to live in peace.

Léontine, an old baroness, opposes her granddaughter's wedding for moral reasons. But Adolphe, her first husband reminds her that her own conduct in the past was far from irreproachable. Didn't she cheat on him ? And after her divorce from him and her remarriage with a baron, didn't she do the same thing to her second husband? Léontine then realizes she is in no position to lecture her granddaughter, all the more as she loves her fiancé truly.