Marcel Roche

The Depths

A bourgeois family, who is harassed and humiliated, ruins their young maids without pay for several …

Césarin joue les 'étroits' mousquetaires

The Irony of Money

The finding of a wallet with a lot of money is the common theme of four stories, featuring a shoeshi…

L'inspecteur connaît la musique

Harry Louis is a jazz clarinetist, obsessed by his art: he would like to match Sidney Bechet; the fa…

My Priest, Champion of the Regiment

How a weak priest, armed up with love, a hat, an umbrella and a breviary became the regiment's champ…

People of No Importance

During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde…

Blood to the Head

François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentme…

The Congress of Mother-in-Laws

The Baroness de Courtebise presides over an association of mothers-in-law with grievances against th…

Trois jours de bringue à Paris

A group of inhabitants from Ferté-sous-Jouarre decide to spend their jackpot on a three day trip to …