"Merlusse" is French schoolboy slang for codfish, and M. Blanchard, a professor at a certain lycée, was known to his victims by that name. On Christmas eve, when some twenty of the students—orphans, foreigners or just plain "unwanteds"—had to remain in the boarding school, Merlusse is placed in charge. His glass eye glares at them stonily, his good one with no less severity. He sets them to tasks, marches like a proctor up and down the aisles, exacts to the utmost the last measure of discipline. But when the youngsters awake in the morning, there are toys by each bed in the dormitory and M. Blanchard, no longer to be called Merlusse, is exposed for the softhearted fraud he is.
as Blanchard dit Merlusse
as Le proviseur
as Nathalie
as le censeur
as Galubert
as Villepontoux
as Philippard
as Catusse
as Lupin
as Godard
as Delacre
as Pic
as Molinard
as Macaque
as L'appariteur
as Le surveillant général
as Le concierge