Fracasse
The Imposter
S1 • E10
Fracasse attacks a coach, holds a bourgeois couple to ransom and seriously wounds the husband. There's a general consternation. The mob, ever ready to burn anyone who has offended, considers Fracasse to be a vulgar bandit. Even in the Dauphine Theatre, doubt assails the members of the troupe. Sigognac, cut to the quick, and too proud to give explanations, sets off to carry out justice himself. Chiquita discovers that Vallombreuse has hired a mercenary to impersonate Fracasse, in order to ruin the reputation of the Defender of Paris. Fracasse has to confront his double in a duel, to make sure truth and justice prevail.
