This play has reached us thanks to a handwritten copy made by Victor-Napoléon Vuillerme-Dunant for submission to the censors in 1852, when this procedure became mandatory. As the most proficient writer, Vuillerme-Dunant was responsible for making these copies, but the plays were often written collectively by Laurent Mourguet and his direct heirs. The play was therefore probably written shortly before 1852.

The manuscript, sewn together with that of the Koch brothers, was acquired in 1927 by the collector Léopold Dor from the puppeteer Joanny Durafour. It is kept in the Léopold Dor Collection at the Musée des Arts de la Marionnette - Musée Gadagne in Lyon, France.

Gnafron and Cadet, unable to pay six francs for a meal, decide to invite Guignol and his wife so that the two of them will pay for them. Guignol claims that he could get a better dinner for less money. Gnafron and Cadet accept the bet. Guignol goes to his neighbour Cassandre, who has become rich by organising emigrants' passage to California. Guignol asks him how much a yellow object, as long as an arm and covered with punches, might be worth. Cassandre, convinced that it is a gold ingot and that he will be able to get it from Guignol, invites him to dinner. Guignol eats until he can no longer walk. When it comes time to show the ingot, he admits that he does not have it. Gnafron arrives with Madelon, Guignol's wife, and beats Guignol for eating so much on his own. Guignol fights with her, which helps him digest, and Gnafron reconciles them by offering coffee and promising a good dinner for the four of them the next day.