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A husband who had divorced twice because he had been betrayed by his former wives, takes his precautions to prevent the did to happen a third time. And yet it does.

Die Erlebnisse eines Dienstmädchens auf Arbeitssuche. Die verschiedenen Stationen ihrer beruflichen Tätigkeit geben Gelegenheit zur karikierenden Darstellung unterschiedlichster Milieus, von der Rechtsanwaltsfamilie bis zum Haushalt eines Scharfrichters.

A bank clerk is bored to death with his nine-to-five work under his boss' watchful eye. His missus is a pain in the neck and his in-laws are not any better.

Pierre Lambert buys a bar in Pigalle and accepts to pay "protection money" to "Bébert le Caïd", a brutal gangster. Over time, Bébert raises his fare and, realizing Pierrot is reluctant to pay more, starts persecuting him. In the midst of an altercation with Bébert, Pierre kills him in self-defense. In a panic he goes to see Gustave Martinet, a police inspector, who has been his best friend since Pierre saved his life during the war. Gustaves advises him to turn himself over to the police, which he does. At the trial Pierre is acquitted but the mob does not forgive so easily...

One day, a young woman and a servant bring in the idle Michel Dunan, pretending to recognize in him the rich industrialist Alain de Narbois. He soon realizes that the masters and servants are playing a comedy.