Georges Courteline 1858–1929

La Paix chez soi

Comedy in one act · 1903

• FR Recorded in French
• ~14 min
• 2 characters, 136 lines
• ~46 MB

Fed up with his wife’s scenes, the serial-novelist Trielle has found the cure: every insult from Valentine costs her a fine, docked from the housekeeping money. She threatens to jump out of the window, then to go home to her mother. In the end she confesses why she needs the money so badly.