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Ma cousine de Varsovie Synopsis

Archibald Burel, a banker, has had enough of his wife cheating on him, and with his best friend Hubert into the bargain. One day he has (at least that is what he thinks!) a bright idea: he asks Sonia, his cousin traveling in France but staying in Saumur at the moment, to seduce Hubert. In these conditions, how could Lucienne not fall into his arms again? Lucienne also asks Sonai to seduce Archibald. Unfortunately for Archibald, things do not go (at all!) according to plan: he himself falls for Sonia while Hubert manages to reconquer Lucienne. Dispirited, Sonia decides to continues her trip in Europe.

Nemesis Synopsis

A young duchess who, after her husband's death, marries a young military captain, but keeps the marriage a secret in order that she may continue to enjoy the property which she conditionally inherits. When the captain is ordered to the front the Duchess vainly tries to hold him back. She writes him that she is going to become a mother and asks his advice He urges her to proclaim the fact of their marriage. Both are aware that this confession means tho loss of the inheritance, and Helen cannot face love in a cottage. She determines to evade the role of motherhood, and when her husband returns and asks for the child she tells him that her letter was merely a ruse to get him back. For a time the captain believes her. But a blackmailing nihilistic doctor Bets a thought germinating in the brain of a dwarf who has been dismissed by the Duchess, and through his instrumentality, the conscience-stricken woman is literally blown by a bomb into eternity. A subsidiary plot centres about the statue of Nemesis which is unearthed in the grounds of an old monastery after being buried, some hundreds of years.