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Jeweler Bernard Blier was cuckolded by his first two wives through no fault of their own as he tells the story. Now he is about to leave Monaco, supposedly to close a major sale in Paris, but actually to visit his little friend. Sacha Guitry, a stage actor scheduled to leave on tour the next day, spots Blier and his wife, Lana Marconi watching his performance from their box. He arranges to meet Mlle Marconi during the first interval of his play. Fortunately, the theater is right across the street from Blier's villa.

Guitry begins the movie's credits in a typically idiosyncratic manner, showing members of the cast and crew and their arrival at the movie studio -- except for editor Raymond Lamy, who is always hard at work with reels of film. Several people get off a tram; composer Louiguy marches in with a brass band playing "La Vie En Rose". And so the show begins, with Guitry talking a mile a minute, and Blier, when we see him, soberly and sadly recounting his cuckoldings. Of course, circumstances will work out so Blier will walk in on Guitry and Mlle Marconi. How will he talk his way out of this fix?

Guitry hadn't had much luck with his five marriages. His first ended when his wife informed him she had been at mass at a church which he knew had been destroyed two hours earlier in a bombardment. At least his final marriage, with Mlle Marconi, would last from 1949 until his death in 1957 at the age of 72.