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- The daughter of an art forger teams up with a burglar to steal one of her father's forgeries and protect his secret.
- August 1944. The Allies are approaching Paris and resistance groups within the city start to plan an uprising against the Germans. However, Hitler wants the city destroyed if it looks like the Allies will take it.
- A witty journey through the history of Paris told to a group of students by Sacha Guitry, from its foundation at the time of Caesar to 1955. Among others you will meet King Charles VII making Agnès Sorel his mistress; you will witness the creation of printing spurred on by King Louis XI; share the life in the Louvres Palace at the time of King François Ier; spend the last night before St Bartholomew's massacre; be horrified by the murder of Henri III by a fanatical monk, watch the abjuration of protestantism by King Henri IV; try to resolve the Man in the Iron Mask enigma; take part in the storming of the Bastille, be present at the execution of King Louis XVI and at the trial of Queen Marie-Antoinette; participate in the Paris Commune, take sides in the Dreyfus affair.
- A history of the bridges of Paris, through modern views and also through the engravings of Bibliothéque Nationale and Musée Carnavalet.
- A visit to a historic district in Paris, Le Marais (The Marsh) through its rich history. From 1240 when the Order of the Temple built their fortified church outside the walls of the city; to the 17th century, as it became the favorite place of the aristocracy; to the 19th and 20th century when Le Marais turned into a commercial area; to the mid-1950s as a campaign of rehabilitation of the various Hôtels particuliers was launched. Now this is 1962 and the film ends with a description of the Place des Vosges.