37 pennies of Mr. Montaudoin
the 37 pennies of Mr. Montaudouin is a comedy-light comedy in an act of Eugene Labiche, in collaboration with Edouard Martin, represented for the first time at Paris on the Théâtre of the Palais Royal the December 30th 1862.
It was published in the Dentu editions.
Summary
Some counterparts
Mrs Montaudoin: “Mr. Isidore, your claimed, is in a good position”.
Fernande: “I believe well! Cash clerk in an great merchant of the street of the Path… two thousand four hundred francs of salary”. Joséphine (the good one): “And the lunch”. Fernande: “And of the black eyes! ” - scene 7: Isidore: " never god thank you as a cash clerk I will owe the remetre of my poche"
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Penuri, the friend of Mr. Montaudoin: “Ah! I have the good ones to tell you on Etampes! You know well… the Préventin mother… the commercial one of tobacco? ” Montaudoin: “Yes! ” Penuri: “Eh well, we buried it Wednesday”. Montaudoin (seeking its 37 pennies which disappeared): “Ah! It is you, Joséphine… Here my friend, Mr. Pénuri… Look at it well opposite”. Penuri, with share: “It is nice! ” Montaudoin, low in Pénuri: “I bet that it hid them in its blouse”. Penuri, with share: “It would be perhaps good to be ensured some! ”
: Montaudoin: “Remember that with the eyes of the company, that which takes thirty-seven under is as guilty as that which takes a million” Mrs Montaudoin, entering by the left, in large toilet: “I believe that this dress is…” Penuri: “Shivering! Shivering! ” Lemartois (the notary): “Sir, I am with my hundred fourteenth contract… and I never saw anything of similar…” Montaudoin (with his/her daughter, that it Marie): “You are unaware of the mysteries of Parisian life! … You do not know that there are tigers… which come to deposit their eggs in the household of the doves! ” Fernande: “But, dad, the tigers do not have eggs! ” Montaudoin: “These reptiles should not have some, but they have some! ”
Source: Theater of Labiche , vol. II, pp. 744 and suiv.
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