A scoundrel, a bag, a snail: all the ingredients are combined for a comedy that, almost 400 years later, did not take a wrinkle. Beyond the farcedic comic that we know so well are the mechanics of a genre today unknown, the little comedy, which allows us to see the place that the Fourberies were able to take on the Parisian boards of Molière's time. At the other end of the chronological frieze, it is still the modernity of the coin that strikes us, with its exaggerated intrigue, which reveals its own strings and puts its metatherapism in the foreground. By restoring the punctuation of the original edition and by offering a new reading prism – that of the little comedy – this edition is an opportunity to take a fresh look at this classic and rediscover it in all its richness, complexity and humour.