Word: jouvet
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...pretending that the pompous, ineffectual mayor is dead and going therefore into mourning! The picture is replete with hilarious situation, good lines (there are English titles), and piercing caricatures. Alerme as the Burgomaster, Francoise Rosay as his wife, significantly listed in the cast as "Madame Burgomaster," and Louis Jouvet as the sanctimonious, swirking friar who with tongue in check calls a gift of sweetmeats to himself "an homage to God," are all in the best French high comedy manner...