Movies:

An orphan named Innocence leaves her county home after her foster-father dies. She travels to the city and makes a living as a novelist. Subsequently, she has an affair with a painter named Amadis de Jocelyn, who later dumps her....

An uncle poses as a usurer to learn which nephew deserves his fortune....

An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an heir....

The story of the Churchills in the court of Queen Anne....

The wife of a diplomat in Geneva pretends to be a maid in order to continue her flirting with a handsome young courier....