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With family connections to some famous French artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Sacha Guitry decided to film the individuals in action, to celebrate the greatness of his culture, threatened by Germany in the ongoing Great War.

Jean, a little embittered and insupportable office worker, is fired for his heinous behavior. Fifty, single and revanchist, he has no friends and finds himself face to face with no future. He then meets Antoine, a young magician adept at meditation. Intrigued by this strange character who responds to his aggressiveness with a resolutely optimistic vision of life, Jean decides to accompany him to La Baule. On the way, despite some unforeseen and surprising encounters, the duo will get to know each other.

Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the Occupation, with some focus on a number of its great writers and musicians.

Maigret is not pleased when his rather dubious school friend Leon Florentin turns up asking for help.

An unknown young women in evening dress is found dead in the streets of Paris. Maigret and Lognon, who has a persecution complex, must work together to investigate the case. No one, however, seems to care or know who this young woman was.

After a mutilated hand was found entangled in the prop of a canal barge, divers find other body parts, but no head. Maigret struggles not only to identify the corpse but also to find out what happened.

Lucie is a rich and happy widow of several gentlemen whom she kindly helped to meet their doom. Her next victim is a widower named John with a situation not unlike hers. The newlyweds develop a strange relationship from day one where they both attempt murder on each other. Scotland yard officer Campbell takes an interest in the case.

Arlette, a stripper in a cheap club, claims she has overheard a murder plot. Maigret is unconvinced - until she's murdered.