Le Fils de Coralie: Comédie en quatre actes en prose

A four-act bourgeois comedy centers on family tensions in a provincial household where a scholarly father and his romanticized daughter clash over marriage choices; relatives, suitors, and a meddling aunt generate misunderstandings, social posturing, and secrets that complicate courtships. Action shifts between domestic rooms and a garden, alternating witty exchanges, revelations, and conciliatory scenes that expose pride, sentimental idealism, and anxieties about honor and inheritance. The comic development depends on mistaken intentions and strategic matchmaking, culminating in reconciliations that both test loyalties and gently satirize romantic clichés and provincial manners.