Republic of Venice, 1760. Pursued by a vengeful husband, the intrepid womanizer Casanova, who symbolizes the decline of the city and its fall into debauchery, manages to escape and, by a circuitous route, arrives in Saint Petersburg, where he will be involved in the many plots that threaten the throne of Czar Peter III…

Antoine, is the brother of Clothilde, lady-in-waiting to gorgeous duchess Silvéri. Parzy falls in love with the duchess, but can't get anywhere near her thanks to the vigilance of the girl's duenna. In desperation, Parzy disguises himself in his sister's clothes and poses as a girl. This gains him entrance to the duchess' boudoir -- but now what does he do?

Claire is married to the elderly owner of a brewery. She seeks excitement with her childhood friend René.

A visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle of Verdun.

A local man raised two boys. One is his son and the other is that of a rich industrialist, to get the bonus to the unhappy father, he gives his own son a lazy scoundrel, to the tearful father and decides to keep the other boy, but the truth does not soon to burst.

August 1914: wife and mother, woman's first sacrifice is to see her beloved depart for the front. In a city, she works in railway stations,as a waitress or even as a chimney sweep. At the factory, she only interrupts her work to feed her baby. At the country she does the plowing or picks olives. But above all a wife, she brings the soldier "fraternity and tenderness", parcels, love notes and care. She brings flowers to the dead's tombs, and remains ever present in the soldier's heart.

This historical melodrama (later remade by Henry Roussel himself in 1932 and Richard Pottier in 1952) set during the reign of Napoleon III of France. Here, Raquel Meller plays a Spanish flower girl who saves the life of the French empress Eugenie de Montijo (played by Suzanne Blanchetti), by taking her place in her carriage. When the carriage is overthrown by the anarchist's bomb, the girl survives because of the masses of violets in the imperial carriage, the empress' favorite flowers.

Based on the short story by Nodier and the play by Maeterlinck.

"Sa gosse" features a realist singer played by Elmire Vautier, whose memories of the unwanted child she left in the country are invoked by the lyrics of a realist song brought Voices from the past.