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The first two short Moral Tales 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 Girl at the Monceau Bakery (La Boulangère de Monceau, 1962, 26 mins), Barbet Schroeder, producer of the Moral Tales and a future director in his own right, plays a man engaged in a systematic search for a woman he has glimpsed in his neighborhood. In Suzanne's Career (La Carrière de Suzanne, 1963, 50 mins), a young man becomes a pawn in an older friend's cat-and-mouse game with a girlfriend, who proves far less fragile than they imagined.