Used book – Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon, Eugène Labiche

In 1860, a wealthy carriage maker decided to celebrate his retirement and his daughter Henriette's graduation with a train journey that would take him and his family to Switzerland. But two young men follow them, both smitten with Henriette, and they will strive, in a fair and friendly rivalry, to win her hand. *Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon* undoubtedly owes all the vivacity of its plot and the lightness of its writing to vaudeville. But it is also a comedy of manners that does not forget Molière, a satirical portrait of bourgeois vanity in those years of the Second Empire when money triumphed and prosperity was flaunted. "I find master fatter," the servant will say to his master: "One can see he has had a good trip."

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