France

After a revolution, Princess Olga must flee to Paris, where she meets Prince Michel that she was to marry. Prince Michel, hidden under the identity of Clown Michaelis, goes back to his country and becomes a model king at Olga’s side.

Zigomar has got his eye on a safe containing $50,000 and belonging to the owner of Grand African Circus. With the help of an elephant, Zigomar and sidekick La Rosario succeed in getting hold of the safe. Paulin Broquet investigates and foils them. The two thieves take off…

A clown takes in a little girl and decides to teach her his trade.

Unable to resist the fair sex, follows a classy lady down the street to a square where a circus tent has been set up. The circus director, who is also the classy lady’s lover, drops in unexpectedly. She makes him believe that Calino wants to learn how to become a lion tamer. The director agrees. On the performance night, Calino enters the lionesses cage, but he goes into a panic and flees, leaving the door open. Panic and mayhem in the audience and beyond.

After a night at the circus Bout-de-Zan dreams that he becomes an acrobat

A mountebank’s son leaves to study medicine, as dreamed up by his father who wants a more respectable life for him. The son returns as a graduate, but what his father does not know is that he married Marie, a dancer of his dad’s touring troupe, and became a father himself. Time goes by…

A troupe comes to perform. A charming young girl, the clown’s daughter, poorly dressed, appeals a lot to an aristocrat. They meet before a performance. They flirt and she decides to elope with him. She then finds herself propelled into a luxurious environment that she is not accustomed to. Her father decides to go and get her with one of his sidekicks. The quest begins…

Eleven people (4 men, 4 women, 2 teenagers, 1 child) dressed up as Japanese walk up to the camera and bow to greet the cinema audience. They execute a dozen acrobatic lifts defying the laws of gravity, then salute and go off-screen.

The young Max left, like a chick, spends at the fair of the throne the few pieces pierced by his mother, when he stops, seized, in front of a barracks where a superb bearded woman parades. He opens such hypnotized eyes that the clown Pipalasse engages him in his troop. Wearing a bear skin, Max is trained as Martin. But soon, O disillusionment, our young first discovers that beard of his idol was false. Heartbroken, he fled, wearing his bear skin, sowing fear in his path. Pursued, distraught, he finally arrives at his parent's home.