Gribouille is a half-wit who lives with his sister Caroline. They are orphans. Caroline is a seamstress, but soon becomes a servant in the mayor Mister Delmis's house. There his brother, the village idiot, has problems with their pet parrot.The former mayor's servant, Rose, is good friends with a bad boy, Michel. Caroline falls in love with a gendarme who arrests Michel after a theft.
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