Armand Numès

Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a Montparnasse café that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt so he could claim his inheritance. Someone secretly lets Willy know it's a deal. The old lady is murdered, and a low-life criminal is manipulated to be the perfect suspect. But Superintendant Maigret feels something is wrong.

As Jean is walking across the countryside in search of work, he helps and befriends a young woman, Françoise, who is having trouble controlling the cow that she is leading. Jean finds work at a local farm, but he soon finds himself caught in the middle of the conflicts in Françoise's family.

Jérôme Crainquebille, is an ageing vegetable seller who has sold groceries from his cart in in Paris for over 40 years. One day, he is harassed by a policeman who insists that he moves on. When he protests, Crainquebille is arrested, supposedly for swearing at the policeman.

A nobleman decides to join a traveling group of actors to be with a girl he admires, but ultimately must rescue her from bandits

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Robert de Houdan is indecisiveness itself. He keeps hesitating, shilly-shallying and never reach any decision in any way. So much so that he finds himself on the verge of ruin and falls prey to Boucherot, a greedy loan-shark who puts pressure on him to marry Yvonne Herbelier. Boucherot is assisted in his undertaking by baroness Pépin, a typical matchmaker. But Robert, who does not know the young lady, shies away from her.

When a Parisian bank clerk is tasked with transporting valuable stock certificates to Nice, his scheming rival steals the documents to ruin him and win over a wealthy heiress. Boarding the same train, a group of passengers unites to thwart the villain, leading to a dangerous showdown as he resorts to extreme violence to cover his tracks.

After supper, two elegant couples descend into a cellar in Les Halles, a haven for criminals and murderers. In this dive, well-known to the nocturnal Parisians, unsettling couples sit at tables over glasses of cheap wine and bowls of mulled wine. The visitors shudder in this atmosphere, but a few well-timed rounds of drinks win them over. A piano begins a waltz, a couple embraces and begins a voluptuous and brutal dance. Suddenly, a brawl breaks out, knives gleam. The police burst in as the panicked visitors flee. But it's all a setup! And the prostitute and the thug return home, having honestly earned their day.

A moneylender kidnaps the young son of a rich widow as part of a plot to cheat her of her fortune. The boy is sent away on a fishing boat with the intention of drowning him, but a kindly old fisherman intervenes.

Monsieur de La Valette, arrested on the return of the Bourbons and sentenced to death as a conspirator, escapes from prison thanks to his wife's plan.