Evocation of the life of Bernadette Soubirous, the eldest of four children, who, at the age of fifteen, experiences a religious vision at the Massabielle grotto near Lourdes.

Claire de La Tour Picquet shares her life between her husband, the successful novelist William Brandeis, and her lover, Jacques Lalouet, William's publisher. Then she discovers that her lover has a mistress, Charlie, who is also that of her husband...

A high school boy falls for a prostitute he has met on the notorious "Rue Des Patures".

In 1936, the political and marital tribulations of Léon Blum, elected President of the Council at the head of the Popular Front.

At the start of the First World War, two next-door neighbors find themselves companions in misfortune. Faced with the horror of the trenches and the fear of death, they grow closer and become friends. But will these strong feelings that the war engendered survive a return to daily monotony?

Two crooks think up a scheme to get rich at the expense of the vain and excessive Grand Duke.