The king of Puerto-Nero is so cowardly that he instructs Berlock Sholmes to find him a look-alike capable of assuming power. Leducq, a Parisian hawker, thus becomes king of Chimeria and the lover of the queen whom he also believes to be a double.

Bouboule, a shoeshine boy at a Parisian train station, is about to discover a revolutionary shoe polish. Unfortunately, due to a series of misunderstandings, he loses his job. But at the same time, he wins a fabulous sum in the lottery. From then on, shoe polish is back in the spotlight…

Two different sales agents named Max Durand live at the same address. One of them pretends to be the other so he make the money and get the girl that he wants.

An unemployed youth pretends to be the long lost son of an elderly industrialist but after helping the man with his business decides to confess his dishonesty and go away.

A widow named Blanche Montel endeavours to find a man with whom to produce a child so that she can pretend that the child was her late husband's and so inherit a fortune.

A novelist uses all means to curry favor with a particularly cantankerous engineer. After believing her to be selfish and despicable, the young man finally decides to marry her.

It is one thing to open a beauty salon (which Edwige and her young lover Gaston have just done) but it is another to keep it on its feet.To best promote their speciality, fountain-of-youth treatments, Edwige decides to apply to the letter the old slogan "It pays to advertise" by posing as... Gaston's mother, a sixty-year-old woman, miraculously grown younger.

The new bride of a young Viennese is so demanding about her career that she lets him go on the honeymoon solo so she can do an engagement.Left on his own,he finds an unpretentious young lady who suits him better.

Georges de Frileuse is a partier who inherits a castle and a ruby ​​necklace when his aunt dies. On Twelfth Night, he invites a few friends over, but a series of mysterious figures arrive instead of them.