Elvire Popesco

In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until the war breaks out and he becomes a soldier. Janine dies in childbirth and, no longer desiring to live, Pierre volunteers for a dangerous patrol behind German lines. While recuperating from a wound he received on the mission, Pierre spends his time drawing sketches of dresses. (imdb)

An opportunist dreams up a new scheme to make money when the French government passes a law forbidding foreigners from living in France. (Wikipedia)

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?

When a common man saves a star by giving blood he becomes her protege, but his luck is short lived.