Title: Le gendre de M. Poirier
First published: 1887
Description: "Le Gendre de M. Poirier" is a comedy of manners based on the old antagonism between vulgar ignorant energy and ability on the one side, and lazy empty birth and breeding on the other; embodied in Poirier, a wealthy shopkeeper, and M. de Presles, his son-in-law, an impoverished nobleman.