Cedric

Unlike what his report cards might lead you to think, Cedric loves school! Or, to be frank, what he really liked at school, from the very first day, was Miss Nelly, his teacher. Ah, the love that blossomed between them! But life goes on, and he's met Chen, clearly the one true love of his life.

Cedric is ticked off. He loves Chen more than ever. Cedric's crush reminds Robert of his youthful flings, and he enumerates the list of his conquests, insisting particularly clumsily on the present he'd offered Genevieve when he'd proposed to her. This recollection obviously sets Mary Rose into a jealous rage, but it also suggests to Cedric a solution for his problem.

Cedric's made up his mind. He's going to declare his love to Chen. But just as he's getting ready to do so, during a lovely walk the two of them are taking together, a pebble slips into the little girl's shoe. Frustrated and angry, Cedric throws a rock that accidentally causes the farmer to fall out of his apple tree

Cedric comes upon his mother offering the neighbor the boy's services to walk the her dog, Caligula. This is a chore Cedric prefers to avoid, so he discreetly makes himself scarce.

Neither Robert nor Mary Rose nor Chen's mother are willing to accompany the children to the school dance, Shocked by this general refusal, Poppy offers to take them.

In the schoolyard, Nicholas shows off his new haircut, basking in the admiration of all the girls, including Chen. Cedric is green with jealousy, and becomes obsessed with one idea: restyle his hair.

It's with emotion that Poppy shows Cedric photos taken during his youth, commenting at the same time that pictures are precious aids to a memory that tends to lapse with age.

Cedric and Christian run into Chen, who tells them how upset she is to have lost a borrowed brooch. If she doesn't find it by tonight, she'll be dishonored. Cedric will stop at nothing to avoid that, and steals a brooch that had belonged to his grandmother.

That nincompoop Nicholas is constantly showing off to Chen, listing his sporting exploits, exhibiting his medals. Exasperated by all his vanity, Cedric decides that he has to become a complete champion.

Cedric hears that Chen has enrolled in the conservatory, in order to learn to play an instrument. But tragedy strikes: Nicholas des Charentes du Ventou is also enrolled, to study the piano.

When Cedric thinks about Nicolas, his arch-enemy, an irrepressible feeling comes over him and he goes red with anger. Nicolas always tries to one up Cedric's stories, he always has to be the best!

Cedric recalls the day he met Christian. When the two kids discuss what their parents do for a living, Christian declares that his father is a secret agent. Mortified to have to announce that his father sells wall-to-wall carpeting, Cedric declares that his pop is an.

Cedric is about to leave for a vacation. Christian persuades him that Chen will no longer be available when he returns, and suggests that Cedric substitute toothpaste for the suntan cream, which should guarantee his prompt return home.

It's obvious that in life you have to keep up with your contemporaries, not be outclassed by anyone. especially where charming a girl is concerned. Cedric realized this truism when Nicholas showed up sporting a heavy tan, after a trip to the sunny south.

It's crazy what love can make you do! Cedric has to show his report card to his parents. After much thought, he's come up with mitigating circumstances, and has a plan: he'll tell his parents that he was born with a brain too small for him to have anything but mediocre scholastic results.

Jealous Nicholas, who has created a portrait of Chen, Cedric decides to become a great artist. He begins by drawing, and persuades Chen to pose for him. First failure: his drawings are terrible, and Chen quickly tires of playing the model. No matter: Cedric next chooses painting.

Chen is playing hopscotch. Cedric is sure that as soon as he looks the other way, all the other boys will submerge her! This reflection prompts his friend, Christian, to say out loud that Cedric is jealous.

That day, when Cedric comes home with Christian, he's in for a big surprise: his cousin Yolanda has arrived! He can't stand her! She's a plague! To top off his misfortune, Mary Rose announces that the cousin is going to be staying for a week.

Cedric is home, sick in bed but with a very particular kind of illness: he's come down with "lovesickness"! He tries to explain the symptoms to Christian: chills, no appetite, shaky legs when he sees Chen Christian, who's never been in love, finds it hard to understand.

That day, Poppy didn't eat much lunch. Mary Rose asks him why. Because it's not good, the grandpa replies. Robert is furious. In that case, let the old grouch do the cooking!

Grownups are sometimes really hard to understand. Cedric still remembers the day he ran home waving his report card like a flag Ð a report card that was brilliant, extraordinary, better than he'd ever had in his entire scholastic career!

Nicholas has received a new present from his father: a skateboard. Consequently, the young aristocrat is the object of all the girls' admiration including Chen's!

Because he's seen Chen horseback riding with his rival, Nicholas, Cedric acts up insufferably at home: he wants a horse! Robert explains that he can't afford to buy him one.

During a ritual, vehement, colorful squabble between Poppy and his son-in-law, Robert Dupont, Poppy solemnly declares that he is permanently leaving this house, in which he is definitely not welcome!

Sometimes situations happen that it's hard to extricate yourself from with honors Cedric is strolling through the park and comes upon Chen and her friends playing on the swing.