narrative_location the beloved vagabond 
The ___MASK29___ (, , ) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern ___MASK91___ , forms part of the Swiss - Austrian , Swiss - Liechtenstein , Swiss - German and then the Franco - German border , then flows through the Rhineland and eventually empties into the North Sea in the Netherlands . The largest city on the river ___MASK29___ is ___MASK79___ , Germany , with a population of more than 1 , 050 , 000 people . It is the second - longest river in Central and Western Europe ( after the Danube ), at about , with an average discharge of about . ___MASK33___ , officially the French Republic , is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . The European , or metropolitan , area of ___MASK33___ extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea , and from the ___MASK29___ to the ___MASK82___ . Overseas ___MASK33___ include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . ___MASK33___ spans and had a total population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017 . It is a unitary semi - presidential republic with the capital in Paris , the country ' s largest city and main cultural and commercial centre . Other major urban centres include Marseille , Lyon , Lille , Nice , Toulouse and Bordeaux . The Beloved Vagabond is a 1936 British musical drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Maurice Chevalier , Betty Stockfeld , Margaret Lockwood and ___MASK7___ Trevor . In nineteenth century France an architect posing as a tramp falls in love with a woman . The film was made at Ealing Studios by the independent producer Ludovico Toeplitz . William George " Will " Barker ( 18 January 1868 in Cheshunt  6 November 1951 in Wimbledon ) was a British film producer , director , cinematographer , and entrepreneur who took film - making in Britain from a low budget form of novel entertainment to the heights of lavishly - produced epics that were matched only by ___MASK56___ for quality and style . Kind Hearts and Coronets is a British black comedy film of 1949 starring Dennis Price , Joan Greenwood , Valerie Hobson , and Alec Guinness . Guinness plays eight distinct characters . The plot is loosely based on the novel " ___MASK24___ Rank : The Autobiography of a Criminal " ( 1907 ) by Roy Horniman , with the screenplay written by Robert Hamer and John Dighton and the film directed by Hamer . The title refers to a line in Tennyson ' s poem " Lady Clara Vere de Vere ": " Kind hearts are more than coronets , and simple faith than Norman blood ." ___MASK73___ is a city in Rhineland - Palatinate , ___MASK9___ , situated on the Upper ___MASK29___ about south - southwest of Frankfurt - am - Main . It had approximately 85 , 000 inhabitants . The Mediterranean Sea ( pronounced ) is a sea connected to the ___MASK82___ , surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land : on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia , on the south by North Africa , and on the east by the Levant . The sea is sometimes considered a part of the ___MASK82___ , although it is usually identified as a separate body of water . Curtis Bernhardt ( 15 April 1899  22 February 1981 ) was a German film director born in ___MASK73___ , ___MASK9___ , under the name Kurt Bernhardt . He trained as an actor in ___MASK9___ , and performed on the stage , before starting as a film director in 1926 . Other films include " A Stolen Life " ( 1946 ) and " Sirocco " ( 1951 ). Claude ___MASK7___ Trevor ( 7 October 1897  22 January 1978 ) was a Northern Irish actor who had a long career in film and television . Bordeaux ( Gascon Occitan : "") is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern ___MASK33___ . ___MASK72___ ( French : ) is the capital and most populous city of France . It has an area of and a population in 2013 of 2 , 229 , 621 within its administrative limits . The city is both a commune and department , and forms the centre and headquarters of the Île - de - France , or ___MASK72___ Region , which has an area of and a population in 2014 of 12 , 005 , 077 , comprising 18 . 2 percent of the population of France . The euro ( sign : €; code : EUR ) is the official currency of the eurozone , which consists of 19 of the member states of the European Union : ___MASK90___ , Belgium , Cyprus , Estonia , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , ___MASK65___ , Luxembourg , Malta , the Netherlands , Portugal , Slovakia , Slovenia , and Spain . The currency is also officially used by the institutions of the European Union and four other European countries , as well as unilaterally by two others , and is consequently used daily by some 337 million Europeans . Outside of Europe , a number of overseas territories of EU members also use the euro as their currency . Toulouse is the capital city of the southwestern French department of Haute - Garonne , as well as of the Occitanie region . The city lies on the banks of the River Garonne , from the Mediterranean Sea , from the ___MASK82___ , and from Paris . It is the fourth - largest city in France with 466 , 297 inhabitants in January 2014 . The Toulouse Metro area is , with 1 312 304 inhabitants as of 2014 , France ' s 4th metropolitan area after Paris , Lyon and Marseille and ahead of Lille and Bordeaux . Nice (; Niçard , classical norm , or "", nonstandard , ) is the fifth most populous city in ___MASK33___ and the capital of the Alpes - Maritimes " département ". The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits , with a population of about 1 million on an area of . Located in the ___MASK58___ , on the south east coast of ___MASK33___ on the Mediterranean Sea , at the foot of the Alps , Nice is the second - largest French city on the Mediterranean coast and the second - largest city in the Provence - Alpes - Côte d ' Azur region after ___MASK22___ . Nice is about 13 kilometres ( 8 miles ) from the principality of Monaco , and its airport is a gateway to the principality as well . French Guiana ( pronounced or ), officially called Guiana , is an overseas department and region of ___MASK33___ , located on the north Atlantic coast of ___MASK36___ in the Guyanas . It borders Brazil to the east and south , and Suriname to the west . Its area has a very low population density of only 3 inhabitants per km , with half of its 244 , 118 inhabitants in 2013 living in the metropolitan area of Cayenne , its capital . By land area , it is the second largest region of ___MASK33___ and the largest outermost region within the European Union . The North Sea is a marginal sea of the ___MASK82___ located between Great Britain , Scandinavia , Germany , the Netherlands , Belgium , and France . An epeiric ( or " shelf ") sea on the European continental shelf , it connects to the ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north . It is more than long and wide , with an area of around . Ealing is a major suburban district of west ___MASK37___ , England and the administrative centre of the ___MASK37___ Borough of Ealing . It is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the ___MASK37___ Plan . It was historically a rural village in the county of Middlesex and formed an ancient parish . Improvement in communications with ___MASK37___ , culminating with the opening of the railway station in 1838 , shifted the local economy to market garden supply and eventually to suburban development . The ___MASK82___ is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". Passport to Pimlico is a 1949 British comedy film made by Ealing Studios and starring Stanley Holloway , Margaret Rutherford and Hermione Baddeley . It was directed by Henry Cornelius and written by T . E . B . Clarke . The story concerns the unearthing of treasure and documents that lead to a small part of Pimlico to be declared a legal part of the House of ___MASK15___ , and therefore exempt from the post - war rationing or other bureaucratic restrictions active in Britain at the time . The English Channel (" the Sleeve " [ hence ] " Sea of ___MASK77___ " " British Sea "), also called simply the Channel , is the body of water that separates southern ___MASK51___ from northern France , and joins the southern part of the North Sea to the rest of the ___MASK82___ . The British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) is a British public service broadcaster . It is headquartered at Broadcasting House in ___MASK37___ , is the world ' s oldest national broadcasting organisation , and is the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees , with over 20 , 950 staff in total , of whom 16 , 672 are in public sector broadcasting ; including part - time , flexible as well as fixed contract staff , the total number is 35 , 402 . The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 comedy film from Ealing Studios , written by T . E . B . Clarke , directed by Charles Crichton , starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass . The title refers to Lavender Hill , a street in Battersea , a district of South ___MASK37___ , in the postcode district SW11 , near to Clapham Junction railway station . Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in west ___MASK37___ . Will Barker bought the White Lodge on Ealing Green in 1902 as a base for film making , and films have been made on the site ever since . It is the oldest continuously working studio facility for film production in the world , and the current stages were opened for the use of sound in 1931 . It is best known for a series of classic films produced in the post - WWII years , including " Kind Hearts and Coronets " ( 1949 ), " Passport to Pimlico " ( 1949 ), " The Lavender Hill Mob " ( 1951 ), and " The Ladykillers " ( 1955 ). The BBC owned and filmed at the Studios for forty years from 1955 until 1995 . Since 2000 , Ealing Studios has resumed releasing films under its own name , including the revived " St Trinian ' s " franchise . In more recent times , films shot here include " The Importance of Being Earnest " ( 2002 ) and " Shaun of the Dead " ( 2004 ), as well as " The Theory of Everything " ( 2014 ), " The Imitation Game " ( 2014 ) and " Burnt " ( 2015 ). Interior scenes of the British period drama television series " Downton Abbey " are shot in Stage 2 of the studios . The Met Film School ___MASK37___ operates on the site . Lille is a city in northern ___MASK33___ , in French Flanders . On the Deûle River , near ___MASK33___ ' s border with ___MASK18___ , it is the capital of the Hauts - de - ___MASK33___ region and the prefecture of the Nord department . The Big Pond is a 1930 American Pre - Code romantic comedy film based on a 1928 play of the same name by George Middleton and A . E . Thomas . The film was written by Garrett Fort , Robert Presnell Sr . and Preston Sturges , who provided the dialogue in his first ___MASK56___ assignment , and was directed by Hobart Henley . The film stars Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert , and features George Barbier , Marion Ballou , and Andrée Corday , and was released by Paramount Pictures . " Thank Heaven for Little Girls " is a 1957 song written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and often associated with performer Maurice Chevalier . It opened and closed the 1958 film " Gigi ". Alfred Drake performed the song in the 1973 Broadway stage production of " Gigi ", though in the 2015 revival , it was sung as a duet between ___MASK60___ Clark and Dee Hoty . ___MASK86___ or ( more archaically ) Lyons ( or ) is a city in east - central France , in the Auvergne - Rhône - Alpes region , about from ___MASK72___ and from ___MASK22___ . Inhabitants of the city are called " Lyonnais ". ___MASK44___ is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia . ___MASK44___ is bordered by the ___MASK81___ Ocean to the north , the ___MASK82___ to the west , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the east and southeast , ___MASK44___ is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural River , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways of the Turkish Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders of ___MASK44___  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " continent " as applied to ___MASK44___ also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent ' s current overland boundaries . Maurice Auguste Chevalier ( September 12 , 1888  January 1 , 1972 ) was a French actor , cabaret singer and entertainer . He is perhaps best known for his signature songs , including " Louise ", " Mimi ", " Valentine ", and " Thank Heaven for Little Girls " and for his films , including " The Love Parade " and " The Big Pond ". His trademark attire was a boater hat , which he always wore on stage with a tuxedo .