Le Nouveau Seigneur du village, also known as On ne badine pas avec l'amour, and known in English as No Trifling With Love and as The New Lord of the Village, is a 1908 French silent trick film released by Georges Méliès, and supervised by an actor-director employee of Méliès's, known as Manuel.
[1] The cast includes Fernande Albany as the mother, and a Mademoiselle Bodson as the bride.
[2] Le Nouveau Seigneur du village was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 1132–1145 in its catalogues, where it was advertised as a scène comique à spectacle ("spectacular comic scene").
[3] Since then, the film has also been known as The New Lord of the Village;[4] this title was used for David Shepard's restoration released to home video in 2008.
[5] In French, the film has also been referred to as On ne badine pas avec l'amour (literally "No Trifling with Love").