A crazed scientist planning to rule the world decides to destroy the city of Paris with his lightning/ray gun.

A hawker, pursued by the law, finds refuge in a garage and finds there a former comrade who has become a mechanic. As he looks like a car driver, he finds himself forced to sit behind the wheel of a car to participate in a race, but not knowing how to drive, he finds himself dead last.

Grotesque animated spirits punish a disbeliever who scorns his wife’s interest in the occult.

Caza, having exhausted all his credit, finds himself without shoes. He enters a bric-a-brac, finds some boots dating from the 18th century and exchanges them for his jacket; but he is barely in the street when the rain begins to fall; second exchange of his trousers for an umbrella, after which he notices his outfit in a mirror and exchanges his tie pin for a coffee bag which he puts on. Thus dressed, he wanders around when he finds a well-stocked wallet which belongs to a tailor who dresses Caza who sets off again in search of lunch.

A man believes to have scared his perpetually agitated mother-in-law to death and goes out to buy her a nice wreath.

Jobard cannot seem to smile, no matter how hard he tries. He recruits a doctor to help him with this predicament.

Lucien Cazalis first his maid and hires a new one. When she puts on an apron, he realizes how pretty she is. What's a Frenchman to do? However, when various men in uniform troop into his apartment when he is leaving, he grows suspicious.

Lucien Cazalis is very excited to be working for a bank. His first assignment is to go to a town and collect a debt. When he arrives, his eccentric choice of hats makes the locals think he is a dignitary they have been expecting.

Gaston finds a letter to a marquise from his father. He wants her daughter to charm the unsuspecting Gaston out of his fear of marriage. Gaston plays a trick on them by switching places with Joabard, his ill-mannered chauffeur.

Jobard receives a note from a secret admirer and goes to a cafe to meet her. However, not knowing what she looks like, he mistakes other woman for what he hopes will be the woman of his dreams.

Elegant, monocled Lucien Cazalis sees women working on the streets of Paris, and will not have it! Unlike most male chauvinist pigs, he doesn't merely decry what he sees as unfeminine, he steps in and does the work, and fouls it up.

It's Lucien Cazalis's day for calling on the ladies. Being a true gentleman, he brings some flowers as a gift. Unfortunately, his rival pinches them to present as his own, and Cazalis is left sitting on his hat.

Lucien Cazalis sees a young woman and falls instantly in love. He volunteers to carry her trunk to her apartment, where he kneels, grinning in front of her, until her father locks him in the trunk and throws it out the window.