Le commissaire est bon enfant

Le Commissaire est bon enfant (The Chief is a nice Fellow) is a one-act comedy by Georges Courteline. It was first performed on December 16, 1899 at the Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell in Paris.

Roles

• The Chief
• Floche
• Breloc
• A man
• Agent Lagrenaille
• Agent Garrigou
• Mr. Punèz
• Mrs. Floche

Published editions

• Courteline, Georges (1965). Pruner, Francis (ed.). Théâtre [Theatre]. GF - Garnier-Flammarion, 65. Paris: Garnier-Flammarion. ISBN 9782080700650. OCLC 634935622. Also OCLC 406497626.

Filmed adaptations

• 1935: Le commissaire est bon enfant, le gendarme est sans pitié, film by Jacques Becker and Pierre Prévert
• 1974: Le commissaire est bon enfant, television film by Jean Bertho

External links

• Televised performance of a staging by Jean-Paul Roussillon, recorded September 5, 1968. First 3:34 may be viewed at no charge; remaining 32 minutes available at charge. Hosted at the Institut national de l'audiovisuel (National Audiovisual Institute of France).
• Scanned copy of a paperback reprint of the 1899 Flammarion edition, complete with original photo engravings, at the Open Library