Old Caleb has a blind daughter who he lies to about disasters happening to keep her happy. By chance he finds his son who disappeared at sea, that the marriage of his ex-fiancée with the villainous Tackleton does not take place and that everything ends for the best in the world...

When he was a child, François Gérard got to know Antiope, a little foreigner, in a Paris park. As an adult, he sees her again in her native country, Mingrelia, which is on the verge of revolution. He is then the host of Count of Antrim, who is also Antiope's father. However, once in the presence of François, the young woman does not seem particularly moved, which somewhat puzzles him.

One of two peasant brothers in love with the same woman escapes his grim country life and pursues a career as a Parisian sculptor.

Colonel Fougas, stricken with catalepsy during the Russian campaign in 1812, was resuscitated after more than a century by French scholars and is not getting used to our time.

Short melodrama. Two former lovers meet twenty years later when the man has to compete with the son of the woman.

Charles Cimier sneaks out with his friends Bisseron and Brossy to break a world record of speed on his bike behind a motorcycle. His mother fears the danger of his attempt.