Ciboulette

Now it is dawn and the farmers, gardeners and traders are starting to unload their carts and set up their stalls in the centre of Les Halles market.

Ciboulette will apparently marry a man who she will find under a cabbage but only after she encounters a woman who turns white instantly, and after she receives a notice of a death, hidden inside a tambourine.

Antonin, exhausted from the previous night’s activity, climbs into an empty vegetable cart, crawls under the straw, and falls asleep.

As dawn breaks, Duparquet comments on the young bucks and courtesans staggering home after a night of revelry, while the stallholders set out their produce.

Meanwhile Ciboulette asks her friends to load up her cart with her unsold produce for she has ducks and cows and lambs to tend back home.

Ciboulette is distressed for she confesses to Duparquet that she loves none of them, and at just this moment Antonin groggily sticks his head out from the vegetable baskets in the back of her cart, shaking off the cabbage leaves.

Ciboulette has swapped her farm girl's clothes for the costume of a Spanish singer for Duparquet has concocted a plan with the help of his friend, the "Waltz King" Olivier Metra.

First Antonin emerged from under a pile of cabbages, then Zenobie turned white when Ciboulette threw a cup of flower over her and finally she has received a note announcing a death, delivered to her in a tambourine.