Madame Marie Antoinette Mobutu, l'épouse de président de la république démocratique du Congo est en France. Le reporter la suit lors de sa visite du Mont Saint Michel, en compagnie des notables de la région. Vêtue d'un manteau de fourrure et de gants blancs, elle gravit les grands escaliers de la cité et les remparts.
Rachele, the widow of Benito Mussolini is interviewed at her home in Predapio, by Jean NEUVECELLE, in her garden among the busts of the Duce. She says she gave advice to her husband, like all wives, and is waiting for a veteran’s widow’s pension. She then speaks of a suitcase containing the last clothes worn by Mussolini on the day of his death, which was brought to her a few years ago..
The interview with the President of Gabon and his wife, Josephine NKAMA, takes place on the occasion of an official visit to France. While walking quietly the couple presents themselves. They each recount their turn, their meeting in Brazzaville, when Omar BONGO was doing his military service and that she was still at school with "the sisters".
L'écrivain Manes Speber, en retraçant la biographie de Lénine, évoque les femmes de son entourage. Son épouse, Nadejda Kroupskaia, fidèle militante et compagne du dirigeant révolutionnaire russe, le suivra dans tous ses exils jusqu'à sa mort. Libérale, elle acceptera avec amitié Inès Armand, l'amante de son mari. Des photographies en noir et blanc illustrent son propos.
Sitting next to her husband, Lucia PINOCHET describes a devoted husband of great human quality and a wonderful father, who helped him with household chores and raise their children before being taken over by his duties. She concedes that he is a little domineering, but that he has no real vices.
The journalist traces the biography of Jiang Qing, the wife of Mao Tse Toung, from a montage of photographs, on the occasion of his trial in the People’s Republic of China with three other leaders of the "Gang of 4". Born in 1914 in a poor family, she fled with her mother a violent father. After her studies, she arrived in Shanghai at the age of 21 and began working for the Chinese Communist Party. In 1937 she joined Mao Tse Tung who hired her as archivist. Noticed by his revolutionary zeal and elegance, Mao decided to marry him in 1940. She is very involved in the "Cultural Revolution". Ambitious, she became the leader of the "gang of four". She could face the death penalty or life imprisonment.
Robert Mugabé, autocratic leader of the Republic of Zimbabwe, has just celebrated his 92 years in style. His wife, Grace Mugabé, 42 years his junior, took advantage of her husband’s great age and early senility to oust her competitors in order to gain power. Anthony BELLANGER devoted his column to the strategy of the political rise of the First Lady at a time when all the opponents were preparing for the death of the president and his succession.
Interviewed in her office, Lucia PINOCHET, talks about the social works she chairs, and more particularly about the institution for the education of mothers. Regarding the birth policy, it reaffirms that abortion is prohibited and will remain so. Forbidden by the Catholic religion, it is not acceptable, according to her, by "the soul of the Chilean woman".
Adolf Hitler and his companion, Eva Braun, are filmed at the Berghof their second home, located in Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden, in the Bavarian Alps. The furher’s companion is filmed smiling in Bavarian dress and naked under a waterfall. The journalist comments on images of the Nazi dignitaries, guests of the couple, displaying smiles of pateline blessing, laughing and joking.