When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron,...

A quack doctor 'cures' a victim of venereal disease, whose baby is later born infected.

A jilted aunt refuses to let her niece marry a violinist's nephew.

A poor author has an engaged girl pose as his wife to please his dying father.

A rich woman refuses to bear her husband a child, but adopts a son by his mistress after his death.

A henpeck man inherits a fortune and starts a club for women-haters.

Retired actress poses as dresser to scare murderer into confessing and clearing her son.

'1860-1910. Life of a mayor's daughter if she married (a) a rich baronet; (b) a poor shopkeeper; (c) nobody.' (British Film Catalogue)