Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing.

The dark years, those of war. This film, which combines fiction and archives, tells the story of the unusual trajectory of a young man from the provinces. Prisoner of war, escaped at the age of 24, he found himself in Vichy, capital of the French state. A convinced Pétainist, he will become a leading resistance fighter.

After seven years of marriage, a couple of professional workers (he, a doctor and she, a banker) try to refresh their sex life.

French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.

A closeted gay man's attempt to "act straight" for the sake of his job has unexpected consequences.