San Antonio College Library

Illustrated student edition. French text, with notes and vocabulary.

This comedy presents a group of rich, clever aristocrats saturated with sexual experience and expertise. The count and countess permit one another's infidelities with the understanding that affairs must be restricted to their own artificial milieu. But when the count falls in love with a unsullied young woman, his wife and former mistress seal a bizarre alliance to destroy the girl.

Amédée creates a comic uproar out of a steadily-growing corpse just outside the bedroom of a middle-class couple. In The new tenant, a man moves furniture into his new apartment. Slowly the articles accumulate until there is no room left. In Victims of duty, the playwright has tried to drown the comic in the tragic, to oppose them in order to reunite them in a new synthesis.