Champignol malgré lui

After a period of studying the works of the earlier comic masters of the 19th century he wrote two new plays in 1892: Monsieur chasse!

Feydeau's old friend, Henri Micheau, the owner of the Théâtre des Nouveautés, insisted on seeing the rejected script and immediately recognised it as a potential winner.

She intends nothing more than the most innocent flirtation; the pair go to spend a day at Fontainebleau, where during the excursion they meet her uncle, Charnel, and his daughter, and her husband, Singleton.

Angèle, irritated with herself for this blunder, immediately takes the train for Paris, leaving St Florimond crestfallen.

They are at the front door when this takes place, and at that moment there arrives Charlotte, a new servant from the country, who assumes St Florimond is Champignol.

The next arrival is a military man, Captain Camaret, who wants his daughter's portrait painted, and St Florimond feels he has to accept, as any hesitation would compromise Angèle.

It now turns out that Champignol, being away, has failed to respond to a summons to a fortnight's compulsory military service, and gendarmes arrive to enforce it.

He is duly cropped, but Camaret again meets St Florimond, and perceiving that his tresses remain luxuriant assumes that his orders have been neglected.