Mamma Sabouleux

Text forerunner of Georges Feydeau’s one-act play Monsieur Nounou. The story of a man forced by events to disguise himself as a woman will later be a subject much exploited on the theatre scene and also in films. It is one of the few texts by Labiche that also shows a little girl, with colourful language and country manners, destined to become the object of contention between Sabouleux, who raised her after his wife’s escape with a cuirassier, and the real parents who had entrusted her, as soon as she was born, to Sabouleux’s wife to be her nurse. There are endless misunderstandings and hilarious situations.