Told that he is to take charge of his grandson, a misogynistic old nobleman is taken aback when he discovers that "he" is actually a "she." At first rejecting the girl, the old coot finally comes to love and accept her.

A French-language version of Stradivari (1935).

During a stay in Seville, Empress Eugénie was charmed by the song of Violetta, a flower girl of gypsy origin. She invites her to Paris where she becomes a prima donna.

The frenetic pace of the edit was intended to match the action, based on Article 635 of the French criminal code stipulating that after 20 years on the run, a penal colony escapee can regain his freedom if he evades capture by the police.

Talkie remake of a 1927 silent about the adventures of the notorious womaniser and venetian adventurer Chevalier Giacomo Casanova. Action starts in Venice and then the plot takes Casanova to France and Russia.

A student monitor in a high school in the French provinces has no control over the pupils. He is in love with the caretaker's daughter but his superior, the Dean of Discipline, is also his love rival. Now, the two men are sent on military temporary duty and irony has it that in the Army the Dean is only a private whereas the mere supervisor's rank is ... corporal!

A Danube boatman who cannot have children takes a wife and her niece as passengers.

Wife of an arms trafficker in Poland, Georgina is forced to help him. She will only be able to regain her freedom - and love - after a troika chase during which the trafficker loses his life.

A young journalist hungry for scoop lets himself be suspected of a crime to write a report.

In Paris, at the Foire du Trône, the showman Titin from Martigues spins the perfect love with the pretty Yvette, which arouses the jealousy of his rival Dix-de-Der who will cause his downfall. Without this affecting his Provençal joviality, Titin will try his hand at various odd jobs without ceasing to push the song.