A rich banker is actually a crook. His mistress, an alien, wants to become French and the only way is to marry a Frenchman.
A more small scale version of the story Griffin used for his epic Orphans Of The Storm: a doctor tries to reunite two sisters who have become separated from each other during the whirlwind of the French Revolution.
Lucie turns the house of chic dandy Gaston upside down.