A Woman of Thirty

Our heroine Julie is attending with her ailing father one of Napoleon' s reviews of his troops.It is after the debacle in Russia, but the Old Guard still knows how to put on a show. The lovely young girl is dazzled by Colonel Victor d' Aiglemont, a dashing young adjutant who gallops by. The father notices Julie' s fascination and shakes his head anxiously, knowing that the young man is unworthy of her.