Peggy Vère

Because he spent his youth with a gang of thugs, a tennis champion is forced to help his former comrades rob his mistress's house. He opposes it and is seriously injured the day before a match, he loses it. The one he loves learns the truth and keeps her love for him.

The Bread Peddler is a 1923 French silent drama film directed by René Le Somptier and starring Suzanne Desprès, Gabriel Signoret and Geneviève Félix. It is based on Xavier de Montépin's novel of the same title.