Séraphin de l’enfance (Séraphin from childhood) is a collection of Chinese shadow puppetry plays meant for young audiences. The title is a tribute to Dominique Séraphin—the first artist to develop Chinese shadow puppetry in France. The book gives technical instructions to build a shadow theatre at home, to keep children busy and make their work pleasurable. It also explains how to create characters and manipulate the figures.

The anonymous play Madame la Baronne (literally: Madam the Baroness) was premiered in Versailles in 1791.

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.