La Fortune de Gaspard

Gaspard is a brilliant pupil who makes a clean sweep of all the prizes every year He despises his family and do not want to remain a crude peasant like them Two businessmen Mister Fereor and Mister Frolichein want him to work in their factories The former wins the contest Gaspard is a young Turk who wants to make his way of life at any cost He steals ideas from other young men and becomes an occasional informer He wins his boss over and as this tycoon has no son he is adopted by him even though his biological parents are still alive But unfair competition threatens Fereors business and Gaspard is forced to marry Frolicheins daughter Mina