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Cartoon Synopsis:

King Charles V and Three Make Eight and Eight Make Sixteen exercises tyrannical rule over the kingdom of Takicardie.

Only a cheerful, talkative bird with sumptuous plumage, which has constructed its nest on top of the gigantic palace, very close to His Majesty's secret apartments, dares to taunt him.

The King is in love with a charming, modest shepherdess whom he wants to marry. But she loves a little chimneysweep.

The shepherdess and the chimneysweep flee to escape the King, and, taking refuge at the summit of the palace's highest tower, save a small careless bird, taken in one of the tyrant's traps. The father bird, in return, promises to help them.

The police discover the fugitives' trail. A wild pursuit ensues. Flying machines piloted by mustached policemen, mysterious creatures who spy on the city, motorized tritons and the King on his electric floating throne, or on his gigantic robot, chase them and, finally, capture them.

The bird and the chimneysweep, separated from the shepherdess, are put to work in the big royal workshops, then thrown, for lack of discipline, into the lions' pit.

Meanwhile, the King prepares to marry the shepherdess with grand pomp.

Then the bird, again using his witty eloquence and his shrewdness (and aided by a blind musician), succeeds in provoking the lions to revolt against the King.

The big cats escape and liberate the people of the lower town, interrupting the marriage ceremony, and the bird follows the orders of the gigantic robot...

The palace and the upper town are destroyed. The shepherdess and the chimneysweep are able to live happily ever after.