The play is set in the reception room of the International Bureau of Inventions, during autumn in Paris.
In the Valency translation, it ends with her meeting the handsome (and single) Chairman of the Board, and everyone wondering what has happened to the great man (the homeless inventor) who quietly slipped away.
L'Apollon de Bellac was translated into English by Maurice Valency, in Jean Giraudoux, Four Plays, vol.
[7] Cast at the Paris premiere included Dominique Blanchar, as Agnes; Lucienne Bogaert, as Therese; Louis Jouvet, as "The Man from Bellac"; and Jacques Monod, as Mr Cracheton.
In 1955, in Tony Richardson's directing début,[8] the play was produced for Television with Denholm Elliott and Natasha Parry in the main roles.