The typewritten document is entitled “Le Chevalier Soleil, légende bouffonne en trois actes et un prologue, tirée de la pièce Le Chevalier Soleil de Pierre-Paul Pinet et arrangée par Th. Talbot” (The Knight Soleil (Sun), a buffoonish legend in three acts and a prologue, taken from the play Le Chevalier Soleil by Pierre-Paul Pinet and adapted by Th. Talbot). This play is indeed a rewriting of Pinet’s Chevalier Soleie, written about thirty years before. The action is more developed than in Pinet’s play, and the text is in rhymed verses. The play ends with the hero’s death and the humorous dimension disappears at this moment. For the Devil’s entrance Talbot also adds the tune “Le Veau d’or” (the golden Calf) from Charles Gounod’s Faust.

Tchantchet’s marionette plays the roles of seneschal François, his envoy Rouquette, two Meneurs and Adam.

Premier Meneur greets the audience in French. Napoleon passes, followed by his grognards (soldiers of Napoleon’s Old Guard). Then Deuxième Meneur sings a song in Walloon. Chevalier Soleil (Knight Sun) arrives, sad and without arms, on a desert island. He meets Adam – Tchantchet, who explains how to leave the island using a bridge, while also warning him that he may encounter the Diable (Devil) and Homme Sauvage (Wild Man). Pigs and horses cross the stage, then a dragon attacks the Knight, who kills it. The Knight meets the Devil then Homme Sauvage and kills them both.

In her castle, Reine Rosemonde (Queen Rosemonde) complains about being lonely to Sénéchal – Tchantchet (Seneschal – Tchantchet). Her son Chevalier Soleil arrives, after being away for a long time, and asks where his father – Roi Ténébreux (Brooding King) – is. When he learns that he went to war two years ago and did not give news, Chevalier Soleil decides to go hunt for him, but a letter informs him of his father’s return. Roi Ténébreux then arrives on stage and relates his various feats, particularly how he killed Don Quixote. Chevalier Mastique, Roi Ténébreux’s nephew, arrives and asks for his help: Fier à Bras’ people have abducted Esclarmonde – the woman he loves. Chevalier Soleil asks his father for the permission to save his cousin. His father agrees.

Fier à Bras tries to force Esclarmonde to marry him. Chevalier Soleil and Chevalier Mastique attack Fier à Bras and kill him, but Chevalier Soleil is wounded and dies. Angels carry him away in the sky.