Catalysterium, a fake doctor, breaks into the Niflanguille's house and diagnoses the couple and their servant with a supposedly fatal disease. He asks them to stay in bed, eats their food and prescribes very expensive medicines (in fact water) to rob them. Mr. Niflanguille finds out about the scam and gets his money back. Cataclysterium is beaten by the Niflanguille and their servant and forced to take an oath to give up medicine forever.

Glove-puppet

All audiences

France

Paris

Duranty Louis Émile Edmond

Printed

False doctor

Medicine

Illness

Health

Medicines

Brandy

Swindler

Punishment

Money

Satire of medicine

Parody of medical language

Syringe

Farce

Satirical

French

Niflanguille

Domestique

Lazzi

Headbutt

Blow-with-a-stick

Chase

Les Drogues de Cataclysterium

Cataclysterium's Drugs

Two hungry lawyers are looking for clients by all means. One would like to urge Pierrot, the other Mme Bégriche to sue anyone under any pretext. But they refuse, flee and then hit the lawyers. The two lawyers join forces to create a dispute: one kills Pierrot's cat and accuses Mme Bégriche of the crime, while the other kills Mme Bégriche's parrot and blames the cat. Dragged to court by their lawyers, the two plaintiffs, victims of the Commissaire's stupidity, were sentenced to be hanged. But they escape without paying any fees and beat up the lawyers who are chasing them. The two lawyers blame each other for this failure and fight to death.

Hunger

Lawyer

Trial

Court

Speech for the defense

Parody of justice

Hanging

Parrot

Blows with a stick

Injustice

Crime

Latin expressions

False testimony

Discord

Comical

Parodistic

Deuxième avocat

Pierrot

Le Commissaire

Le Perroquet

Le Chat

Misunderstanding

Fight to the death

Court scene

Parodic trial

Les Plaideurs malgré eux

The Plaintiffs in spite of themselves

Polichinelle stole a wizard's picnic and beat him up. The wizard made a giant hand appear. Chased by the hand, Polichinelle runned into an old woman's house. To get him out, the Hand trapped him with a smelly pâté. Feigning repentance, Polichinelle asked the wizard to free him from the Hand, then killed him and tried to control the Hand. But it threatened him with a pitchfork and carried him away like the Devil would do.