Traditional play of the repertoire from Lyon. The version presented here is kept in the collection Temporal in the Institut International de la Marionnette (Charleville-Mézières). La Queue du chat was performed by Louis Josserand, who performed at the Caveau des Célestins (1850-1862), at the Café Condamin, Rue Port du Temple (1862-1869) and at the Passage de l’Argue (1866-1869). Another version created in 1895 is attributed to Étienne Patinaud and kept in the Musée Gadagne in Lyon. A third one is kept in the Fonds Ancien of the Bibliothèque de la Part-Dieu in Lyon.

The doorman Gnafron makes the cook Fifine believe that they have to cut a piece of the tail of their master’s cat: this way, Gnafron is hoping to enjoy the leftovers usually eaten by the cat. Guignol comes back from the cellar with a bottle of wine that he wants to share with Gnafron. In a clumsy movement, Fifine cuts the entire tail of the cat, who ends up on Guignol’s head. Picot, their master, discovers everything and is about to punish the three of them, but they manage to convince him that what they did was good.