Discusses the novelists Balzac, Hugo, Dumas (Pere poet Fils), flaubert, Stendhal, Sand, and Zola. George Sand's country home, Nohant, and the environs of Rouen, where Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary, are also filmed. The French language version of the film is narrated by Robert Manuel, Societaire of the Comedie Francaise.
28 minutes, color, sound