How a simple sewer, a perfect look-alike of the president of the council, manages to reform a country and make himself loved by his fellow citizens.

When a young woman named Aurélie throws a fit of jealousy at her husband and her lover, daily life becomes more complicated.

The tamer Nikita marries the girl he had once recruited into the circus but she loves a trapeze artist.

Léonce Vavin, an entomologist, marries Cecile Debienne, but the parents of the bride quickly realize that he's not just ugly but also a complete ignorant of all sexual matters.

Marc Lanterne and Monsieur Smith investigate the home of a castellan who is the victim of jealousy, justified by the way, of his wife. Monsieur Dunoyau wants to know the author of the anonymous letters he receives. After a whole series of extraordinary adventures, the truth comes out and Dunoyau is reconciled with his wife.

A woman visiting Corsica falls for a singer with a velvet-smooth voice.

Jules and Fernand are two boys from the Café des sports in Marseille who take part in their corporation's annual race.

Ignace Boitaclou, although sympathetic, is not very intelligent. Upon his arrival at the barracks to perform his military service, he was appointed colonel and had to take care of the latter's terrible wife.

A businessman, Masson, who likes to party, wants to force his partner, Chabrat, a hard worker on whom the success of their fashion store depends, not to leave Paris. For this, he agrees with a young cabaret dancer, Zizi so that she pretends, for a fee, to fall in love with Chabrat who, more than anything, wants to be loved for himself. But Zizi soon finds herself in her own trap: she is “snatched”.

The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.