Decorative header banner featuring a central grotesque mask or face flanked by symmetrical floral and scrollwork designs.

CHARACTERS.

Mr. ARGANT, a bourgeois.
Mrs. ARGANT, his wife.
CRISPIN, manservant to Mr. Argant.
Mr. BLONDINEAU, a lawyer.
A SOLDIER.
A CATERER.

The scene is in a provincial town.

A small decorative woodcut ornament with floral or foliate elements.

The stage represents a salon, in which there is a protruding fireplace, a two-door sideboard, and a table covered with a green cloth, upon which they are playing Trictrac a board game similar to backgammon.

A horizontal decorative divider with tapered, ornate ends.