Jacques Maury

An honest civil servant learns about his wife’s infidelity. He pretends not to be aware of it and decides to start a businessman career. He...

A young lady whose husband has been seeing someone else decides to make him jealous by flirting with the unlikely prospect of a fat man.Is it worth...

A novelist uses all means to curry favor with a particularly cantankerous engineer. After believing her to be selfish and despicable, the young man...

When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who looks like him, the staff and spectators at that...

An English gentleman himself causes his own burglary to better suppress the formidable gang which, after having murdered his brother, is now...

Two husbands claim to be Freemasons so they can go out at night. Where do they go, if not to the lodge, the Masonic lodge? In reality, one goes to...

Désiré Chopin, hunter on foot and friend of François de Crecy, uses a thousand tricks to encourage the love between...

During an inquest after a woman is killed, the judge suspects his own son. The woman's lover had been friendly with the son and he was also supposed...

Perrichon, a well-off self-satisfied bourgeois, goes on holiday with his wife and his pretty daughter Henriette. He is more or less willingly...

Cora Pearl, a demi-mondaine under the Second Empire, falls in love with a legitimist while she is the mistress of Jérôme Bonaparte, the...

Ginette is always squabbling with her mother and she cannot take it any more. One day, she asks Jim Ashbury to intervene and this is how the son of a...

Small rentiers do not want their son to marry a young rich girl. They hijack letters and prevent meetings. But love wins. Defeated, the parents...

Kid Marc is an upcoming boxer about to become the European Lightweight Champion, only he discovers his surprising victories had been handled by his...

A rich American lady has bought the Castle of Longueval. Her sister is being courted by two young villagers, one that fell in love with her, and the...