Aurélia and Eularia’s guardian, Scaramouche, has imprisoned them because he would like to get hold of their belongings and marry Eularia. Cinthio and Octave, with the help of Arlequin and Trivellin, set up a series of ploys to see the two girls. One of those ploys consists in a curiosité show. They pressure Scaramouche into forsaking his ambitions. The third act is set at the Foire Saint-Germain. There, Arlequin disguises himself as the puppeteer Brioché and performs several magic tricks.

Curiosité

Not specified

France

Paris

Printed summary

Animated object

Tutor

Wedding

Fair

Chimney sweep

Enema

Magic tricks

Toothpulling

Infant

Comical

French

Il regalo delle dame

Scaramouche

Cintio

Arlecchino

Octavian

Trivelin

Brioché

Moor

Blind

Marquis

Tooth Puller

Mask (masked type)

Judge

Chimney sweeper

Metamorphosis

Theatre within the theatre

Magic act

Disguise

Imbroglio

Misunderstanding

Lazzi

Word for another

Le Régal des dames

The ladies' Treat

The Baronne (Baroness) is on her balcony, waiting for the chimney sweeps. When they arrive, they give her a price which she rejects. The Baron also refuses to have the chimneys swept. But the Baronne insists, and the chimney sweeps begin to work and sing a song which the Baronne deems disrespectful. Furious, she grabs a chamber pot; she ties it to a brass wire, which also goes through the hat of one of the chimney sweeps, and goes back to the balcony. When the chimney sweeps leave the house and begin to sing again, the wire is pulled: the chamber pot falls on the head of one of the chimney sweeps, where his hat was.

Shadow theatre

Young audiences

Versailles

Printed

House

Cheekiness

Farce

Chamber pot

Farcical

La fermière coquette et Madame la Baronne. Shadow figures to cut out. Printed by Dembour et Gangel, Metz, s.d.