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

France

Versailles

Printed

House

Chimney sweep

Cheekiness

Farce

Chamber pot

Comical

Farcical

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