Burns Mantle writes in The Best Plays of 1920-21 that Guitry had to withdraw the play due to World War I shells starting to drop within blocks of the theatre, but that the play had already been such a success that there was "lively bidding" for the American rights to a translated version that Harley Granville-Barker had made for Charles B.

[1] In America, after an out-of-town warmup in Washington,[2][3] the play debuted at the Belasco Theatre on December 23, 1920.

"[1] Belasco, however, decided not to take the play on the road due to the cost of doing so, also reporting that the entire production in New York was also going to be a loss.

The New York production required actors and staff totaling 126 (plus two children) to be staged.

[6] The 1951 French film of the same name is also based on the play, with Sacha Guitry both directing and reprising his lead role.