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Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city.

Darius Caunes is a modest printer flanked by a cantankerous spouse ;he finally does away with her and becomes friends with the lieutenant in charge of the investigation ...who does not suspect him at all. Non content with having done such an awful crime,he is also a counterfeiter -which is easy in his printing house .But one blimp is enough to bring everything grinding to a halt !His secretary ,pretty Rose, gives some of these forged banknotes to a buck she is in love with.

Lady M. wades every morning through the sea in order to heal her pain. But she is not what she pretends to be: Together with her partner Pompilius she finances her luxurious life by fraud and blackmailing. Falling in love with young Lambert she is about to break up all her pretendence as Pompilius is not willing to accept the youngster.

A man must wait until a fixed date to have sex with the woman he loves

A 100-year-old family feud in Albania continues to target men for vengeful execution in this somber drama.

Thirty-year-old Alexis is a retarded teenager and has no desire to commit himself either professionally or romantically. He succumbs to the charm of Laura who uses her diabolical gifts to push him to work, marry him and have children.

Monsieur Jourdain,a rich bourgeois ,wants to imitate the aristocrats .He hires masters,to teach him music,dance, philosophy and fencing.But his wildest dream is his daughter ,Lucile, marrying a noble.All his entourage ,teachers and aristocrats ,are spongers who make the most of his naivete .His wife is more sensible,and is not fooled by these delusions of grandeur.She knows that a son-in-law who's not from her condition is a nuisance to live with at home and she helps Cléonte ,a man of common birth ,to win her daughter's hand in marriage.

During the era of the Popular Front, Milou, a young boxer, is introduced to the French upper middle class by his mentor, Johnny, a friend of the Ancelot family. Milou becomes the lover of Mariette Ancelot and Christine Lasquin.

Jacques and Jacqueline do not have much more pleasant to say to each other after forty years of married life. When, in an inopportune way, their son Bernard arrives to present his fiancée Brigitte to them, that does not help.

Mathilde and her husband, who works in a minister's office, are not rich. Mathilde, however, loves beautiful clothes and her husband loves her too much that he lets her do anything she wants. One day they receive an invitation for an important party and she wants to look her best. She borrows a beautiful diamond necklace from her rich friend. The necklace is lost and she is too proud to tell her friend what has happened. She and her husband buys a replacement. The friend doesn't notice the difference. Mathilde and her husband spend 10 years to pay the debts. When Mathilde meets her friend again, her hair is all white because of the sorrow.The friend tells Mathilde that the necklace is a fake.

Charming, young Marguerite Amandon lives with her magistrate husband, but she is not happy. Using the name of Miss Clarisse, she takes soldier lovers who she receives in Room Number 11 at the Cheval d'or inn twice a week. For an excuse, she tells her husband that she is doing charity work. One night, her husband is gone for a week to Paris, so she is having a rendez-vous with her lover out of the usual schedule. She arrives late because her aunt came and finds the corpse of a man in her bed. This corpse, was a tourist who suddenly dead, and the inn-keeper planned to remove it discreetly after all the guests have gone to bed. Marguerite's cries wake them all, and she is held for murder. The police inspector let her go, for he has known the truth, but the scandal is discovered. Marguerite leaves the town with her husband who suddenly has got a promotion.

Two poor families live side by side: the Tuvaches and the Vallins. Mathilde d'Hubières, a rich woman from the city, is desperate because she doesn't have any children. She comes to the Tuvaches to buy their youngest son, but is refused and sent to their neighbour. The Vallins agrees to give her their son. Time passes, and all the time, The Tuvaches critic their neighbour, who live better because of the annual pension. The Tuvache kid falls in love with the daughter of a nobleman, but she chooses the Vallin kid, who is rich and educated. The Tuvache kid starts to blame his parents for not selling him in the first place. This event leads to the death of the Tuvache mother.