A contemporary writer noted the charm, distinction, good humour throughout the score, with tenderness without banality, and gave particular praise for the orchestration.

A radio broadcast was made by the ORTF on 17 October 1967 and re-broadcast on France Musique on 7 November 2007, with Claudine Collart, Denise Benoît, Aimé Doniat and Gaston Rey among the cast.

[4] It is 1921; in Pressigny-sur-Loire, in a typical pretty French village, a dinner ends in the garden by the Loire of Monsieur and Madam Lebardin – a middle-aged couple, whose guests are the Pagenel family.

The two men reminisce over student japes and the time Lebardin fell for a young blonde shop-girl called Louisette.

Suzanne asks that a complaint against the previous post-mistress be withdrawn, and offers improvements in the postal service (a second newspaper delivery, telegrams dispatched later) in return for such a letter.

Henriette, who has accompanied Suzanne to Pressigny confesses that she was happier in their previous place in the rue Lafayette in Paris, although Suzanne reminds her friend that in Paris the post office was always full of Riri's admirers.

However she changes her mind when Lebardin renounces his oath to provide for her, and agrees with the viscount to move back with him to the peaceful country.