Pierre Darmant

A poor disgraced girl, belonging to a gang of criminals, is morally transformed by a cosmetic operation that makes her beautiful.

Philippe, the order of an old colonel, surprises the wife of his boss in the arms of a young lieutenant. So that he remains silent, she offers herself to him

A film based upon the life of Vidocq, the famous adventurer, who, after numerous prison escapes ceased being a crook, a thief and a counterfeiter, and was employed by Pasquier’s government’istry as director of the crime-fighting Sûreté Nationale.