Monsieur Jourdain, parvenu enrichi et naïf, rêve d'être reconnu dans la haute société. Il engage à cet effet des maîtres de musique, de danse, de philosophie. La folie des honneurs, des décorations, de la puissance s'est emparée de notre bourgeois...

Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who has been unable to bear children. To fill this void in their lives, he feeds and clothes abandoned children, raising them in his mansion as if they were his own. As would never be the case in real life today, in this fantasized story set in 1925, no one objects to this behavior, and they live pleasantly and enjoyably together. Things grow considerably more animated when a stage magician places his very attractive daughter in the colonel's household, which stirs a lively romantic interest from his boys and from the great man himself.

Henri Rainier has everything a man could want. A glamorous wife, two beautiful daughters and a well-paid job with a large bank. Then, one day, his entire world collapses. In the wake of a high-profile financial scandal, he is summoned into his director's office and accused of negligence. Rainier has no choice but to resign, but he soon realises that he has been made a scapegoat. He begins his own investigation in an attempt to clear his name and discover who is responsible for the enormous hole in the bank's finances. It soon becomes apparent that he is up against a very powerful and dangerous opponent.

'Le Bel Ete 1914' finds us in the rural French countryside, prior to the first world war. Gabriel (Robinson Stevenin) a young teen, arrives at the family summer home and immediately falls in love with a distant cousin, before causing mayhem for himself and the family.

Argan is seriously ill. At least that's what he imagines. In order to always have at his disposal a man capable of caring for him, he decides to marry his daughter Angélique to a doctor. But Angélique is in love with Cléante. Facing her father's obstinacy and the machinations of her mother-in-law, she can only rely on help of a faithful and cunning servant of the house, Toinette. Colluding with Aral's brother, Angélique multiplies the tricks to foil conspiracies, unmask liars, and let love to triumph over the greedy interest.

In southern France, in a quiet little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible noise and the heat's getting higher and higher. They don't realize what's happening: when they come out of the cellar, they realize that everything has burned, and all the buildings are destroyed...