<p>The rich Cassandre, desperate for his foolish and insolent son Pierrot, is prepared to hire a very expensive tutor. Polichinelle is hired, but his bad lessons in obedience, geography, arithmetic, morals and fencing immediately turn Pierrot into a brawler, drinker, liar and thief who ends up being hanged for swindling Arlequin, the cabaret owner. When Cassandra complains to Polichinelle, he kills him with a stick. Denounced by Arlequin as Pierrot's accomplice, Polichinelle kills the gendarme who came to arrest him. He is taken away by the Devil.<br /><br /></p>

Glove-puppet

All audiences

France

Paris

Duranty Louis Émile Edmond

Printed

Relationship between father and son

Silliness

Cheekiness

Education

Lesson

Swindling

Comical

Farcical

Satirical

French

Polichinelle

Pierrot

Arlecchino

Constable

Devil

Slaps

Blow-with-a-stick

Headbutt

Final intervention of the devil

Hanging scene

Characterisation through onomatopoeia

Polichinelle précepteur

Polichinelle preceptor