Original (francés)

INTRODUCTION Because Le Voyage de M. Perrichon is a delightful comedy and particularly suitable for use in the class room, it does not follow that the place of its author in the literature of France should be unduly magnified. Eugène Labiche's chief claim to fame is that, as a distinguished critic said of him, «for forty years he kept his contemporaries in laughter.» From 1838, when he wrote his first play, till 1876, when he voluntarily retired, he produced, generally in collaborati