Nicole, a spirited lawyer, must defend, for her debut in the courtroom, the accused Panoyau. It is a failure, the death sentence. Furious, Nicole proclaims to Claude, her fiance, that the marriage is canceled as long as Panoyau is threatened. Claude manages to steal the guillotine and the couple go on a trip and discover the real assassin.
Edouard
A schoolboy remembers his last holiday in the big house of his family in the country, before it was sold.
Gaston, nicknamed Pilou, has left his native village and Yvette, the girl of his heart, to go to Paris where he has found work as a painter. He is a naive good-natured man who, like most of his fellow-workers, favors a little song or two while he works. For the time being he is busy repainting the exterior of a block of flats and, when he does not sing to pass the time, he looks through the windows, observing the tenants in their daily lives. As time goes by, he goes as far as intervening and changing the course of their lives. In the end, despite having found a lookalike of his fiancée, he returns to her.
Léon Ménard, a farmer and an apparently simple man of the country, is invited to visit his uncle Henri Ménard, a prosperous industrialist. He encounters a number of people scheming to marry into the Ménard family for the sake of money. Ménard discovers and thwart the plots and manages to unite a young couple who truly are in love. The romantic comedy ends happily with a double marriage. Henri's daughter Nicole marries Didier, and Ménard marries his new-found love Rosine. It turns out that Léon is "not so stupid" after all.
l'avocat
В Версале на своей вилле убита богатая американка мадам Андерсон, единственный племянник и наследник которой погряз в долгах, растратив все былые средства на свою возлюбленную. Но все улики указывают на курьера Жозефа Эртана, который арестован и приговорен к смертной казни. Комиссар Мегрэ не верит в виновность Эртана и тайно организует его побег, полагая, что это выведет его на след настоящего убийцы.
The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.