The Art of Being Bored: A Comedy in Three Acts

by Edouard Pailleron

FOOTNOTES:

[1] A prefect is the officer in charge of the administrative affairs of the Department, one of the ninety-six divisions of France.

[2] The “Journal Amusant” is a comic paper, the “Journal des Debats” a very old and conservative organ.

[3] Modern France is divided into ninety-seven “Departments” which roughly correspond to the states in the United States.

[4] The principal character in Moliere’s famous comedy, “Tartufe,” a hypocrite, whose name has become proverbial.

[5] Roger uses the familiar “tu.”

[6] She uses the formal “vous.”