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When he learns that a new decree threatens to immediately deport undocumented foreigners living in France, crafty adventurer Jean Lécuyer imagines arranging marriages of convenience for well-heeled women menaced by the new law: a guano merchant and mother of two daughters, a ravishing demimondaine supported by a duke, an Asian circus performer, a young American singer, and a Polish countess with a fiery temperament...