It is based on the 1893 play of the same name by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau.
[1][3] Gabrielle Réjane and Edmond Duquesne reprised their roles in the play; Réjane played the title character, a laundress who marries a man who becomes one of Napoleon's field marshals (based on the real-life Catherine Hübscher), while Duquesne played Napoleon.
Conflicting sources state the director was André Calmettes[1] or Henri Desfontaines.
[3] According to Richard Abel, Madame Sans-Gêne is "still extant.
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