"A moraliste," Eric Rohmer has explained, "is someone who is interested in the description of what goes on inside man. He's concerned with states of mind and feelings." Rohmer's contes moraux (moral tales), modern as they are, evoke the jeux d'amour found in eighteenth-century French literature. They are delicate excursions into the province of the man who intellectualizes desire until it is safe, objectifies women until they are dangerous. The first two short works introduce the themes and structure of the feature films to come-in each, a man involved with one woman will become attracted to another, and using a variety of intellectual subterfuges will avoid making love to her. In The Baker's Girl (La Boulang?re de Monceau, 1962, 26 mins), Barbet Schroeder (producer of the Moral Tales) plays a man engaged in a systematic search for a woman he has glimpsed in his neighborhood. In Suzanne's Career (La Carri?re de Suzanne) (1963, 50 mins), a young man becomes a pawn in an older friend's cat-and-mouse game with a girlfriend.