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mistress, Zizi, has another admirer: Fauvinard's lecherous but narcoleptic uncle. Fauvinard's mistress, Césarine, also has another admirer, whose wife is
Fauvinard's client in her divorce suit. Circumstances bring all the main characters together in Césarine's flat, where the urgent necessity to avoid being found there causes frenetic exits and entrances, offstage savagings by Césarine's man-hating pet dog, and adoption of fictitious identities. Eventually all is safely resolved, and the men are back under the supervision of their wives (and mothers-in-law) convinced that dissipation does not suit them.
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Parisian lawyer, with a bullying mother-in-law. He and his colleague Tardivaut fabricate a case – the Veauradieux trial – to create an alibi for their extramarital affairs. It chances that both their mistresses live in the same apartment block, and that, unknown to them, Tardivaut's
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of laughter, and as the scenes follow one another and the evening progresses, the laughter crescendos to become almost universal … a great, complete success … We laughed during the show. We were laughing when we came out. And we will laugh at it for a long time.
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