Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon Comédie en quatre actes   By: Édouard Martin (1828-1866)

"Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon" is a delightful comedy that follows the misadventures of Monsieur Perrichon, a wealthy and bumbling businessman, and his family as they embark on a journey to Switzerland. The play is filled with humorous moments and witty dialogue that keeps the audience entertained from start to finish.

Édouard Martin's writing is clever and engaging, and he crafts a story that is both lighthearted and thought-provoking. The characters are well-developed and each brings their own unique personality to the stage, adding depth and complexity to the story.

The play's themes of social class, morality, and the nature of happiness are explored in a humorous and entertaining way, making the audience reflect on their own values and beliefs. Overall, "Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon" is a charming and enjoyable comedy that is sure to leave a lasting impression on anyone who sees it.

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Eugène Labiche's chief claim to fame is that, as a distinguished critic said of him, «for forty years he kept his contemporaries in laughter.» From 1838, when he wrote his first play, till 1876, when he voluntarily retired, he produced, generally in collaboration with writers known mainly through their association with him, over one hundred and fifty comedies, in each of which is heard the same dominant note of fun and merriment. But of these plays only a very small number possess the qualities that alone make for durability; neither their form in most cases photographically true to the looseness of the most familiar conversation nor their substance often grotesquely impossible adventures, situations supremely laughable because colossally absurd is calculated to embalm his plays against the ravages of time. He thought so himself, and declined for a long time to have them collected into a complete edition; and when, in 1880, he was proposed for a vacant seat in the Académie Française , he doubted whether he would have voted for his own admission into that illustrious company... Continue reading book >>