With a cigar on his lips and very pleased with himself, Mr. Keurvolant is strutting through the streets when he comes across a very elegant young woman and immediately burns for her: "She or no one else!" The stranger stops in front of a ...See moreWith a cigar on his lips and very pleased with himself, Mr. Keurvolant is strutting through the streets when he comes across a very elegant young woman and immediately burns for her: "She or no one else!" The stranger stops in front of a sign: "Apartment for rent" She asks to visit. Mr. Keurvolant follows her, and gives her the honors of the building. The lady, annoyed, pushes him away and ends up closing the door in his face, turning the key; making Mr. Keurvolant a prisoner. Disconcerted, he looks for a way out, opens the window and, seeing the adjoining window, climbs over the balustrade. He found himself in the presence of a lady who uttered a cry of fear at this man who had fallen into her home in an aerolite. But Keurvolant hastens to reassure her, decides, while speaking to her, that he finds her kind and falls to her knees: "To you, my heart and my life!" The husband enters in the meantime. Keurvolant, frightened, descends the stairs one at a time, falls, slips, gets up, still pursued by the jealous and threatening husband, rushes onto a moving omnibus where, immediately, absorbed by his neighbor on the right then by the one left, he forgets his previous adventure to start another one. But from disappointment to disappointment, Mr. Keurvolant, beaten, ridiculed, rolled in the mud, disillusioned, becomes more incombustible than asbestos. Written by
Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé
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