A screwball farce written by Claude Magnier as a play about an industrialist trying to get back the money one of his employees stole and the resulting complications. It was made into a French film (starring Louis de Funès, who also starred in the play countless times) in 1967 that he co-wrote, and an American film in 1991, starring Sylvester Stallone (in this version, a mobster trying to go straight).
The stage play contains examples of the following tropes:
- Fake Pregnancy: Collette lies to her father about being pregnant so he will allow her to marry her boyfriend.
- Farce
- Satchel Switcheroo: There are three cases, having jewelry, cash, and lingerie. Bertrand keeps thinking he's finally got the one with something valuable (money or jewels), only circumstances have given him the one with women's underthings... again. And because nearly all comedy protagonists choose the route most designed to embarrass them, he never bothers to check what's inside before dumping it out on the table in front of guests.
