<p>A wealthy baker chef asks his cousin the apothecary to help him poison Pierrot, who is constantly robbing and assaulting him. When this plan fails, he sends his dog after the thief, but Pierrot kills the dog. Knowing that Pierrot has always wanted to learn pastry-making, the baker pretends to take him on as an apprentice to get revenge. But Pierrot plays many tricks. The gendarme, who has come to arrest him, is swindled, then hanged in the villain's place. Pierrot kills the baker and the apothecary, as a worthy disciple of Polichinelle.</p>

Glove-puppet

All audiences

France

Paris

Duranty Louis Émile Edmond

Printed

Pastry

Theft

Money

Wickedness

Poison

Learning

Revenge

Criminal

Perseverance in Evil

Cruelty

Cruelty to an animal

Farcical

Comical

French

Pierrot

Pastry chef

Apothecary

Constable

Blow-with-a-stick

Headbutt

Fight with an animal

Lazzi

Back Stroke

Hanging scene

Pierrot et le pâtissier

Pierrot and the baker

<p>Fleeing his wife, Polichinelle steals a charlatan's cabriolet with Pierrot. First he wins the trust of the population with free advice, then he launches a subscription for a phantom financial company. When the shareholders demand their money, he sends them away with good words and blows, until the Public itself comes to threaten him directly. Mrs. Polichinelle offers to take care of the punishment. Terrified, Polichinelle flees into the forest. Abandoned by Pierrot, he walks to Hell. There, he tries to swindle Death and stands up to the Devil who, in desperation, goes looking for Mrs. Polichinelle. She brings her husband home firmly, with the approval of the audience.</p>

Swindling

Hell

Marriage hell

Punishment

Forest

Public

Capitalism

Bossy woman

Escape

Satirical

Ironic

Le Charlatan

Charlatan

Polichinelle

Crook

Tenant

Lady

Peasant

Cassandre

Cassandra

Shopkeeper

Colombine

Valet

Death

Devil

Intervention of the audience

Apparition of the Devil

Plot twist

Apparition of Death

L'Homme au cabriolet

the man with a cabriolet