Divorçons

They are reconciled and the play ends on a moral tone with the adultery punished and traditional family values being upheld.

Adhemar de Gratignan - Cypriennes lover Clavignac - (Rene Luguet) A friend of Des Prunelles who is separated from his wife who is always badgering him to increase her allowance.

In 1881 also prompted an Italian journalist from the Messagero newspaper in the guise of a review of the play[7] to bring up the topic and condemn the Roman-Catholic movement named Opera dei Congressi which strongly opposed legalizing divorce in Italy.

[8] The author Andre Gide who viewed an 1889 production of the play proclaimed it to be "...extremely strong and marvellously made .

In 1896 an adaption of the play was made by Herman Merivale under the name "The Queens Proctor" In this version that was said by a reviewer "to have been scrubbed of all offense" the husbsnd is transformed into Englishman,his wife and lover are Italians.