Le Louis de vingt francs

Little orphan Pierre has only one friend, the flower-seller Mireille. To earn his living he sells newspapers. A con man gives him a false twenty-franc coin, with which Pierre treats Mireille to an orgy of chocolate eclairs and choux buns, after which the patissier has Pierre arrested for tendering false money. Mireille seeks out the real forger in the crowd, finds him and follows him to the workshop where he and his accomplices operate. Mireille exposes them and even saves the life of the police inspector, at the moment of their arrest. The grateful man adopts the two children, who will finally know the joys of family life.
Francis Lacassin, Louis Feuillade, maître des lions et des vampires (Paris: Bordas, 1995), p.121
(translated by Roland-Francois Lack).