Alexandre bis
In a Paris salon around 1900, Alexandre leaves home, allegedly for the station, while his American cousin arrives. His wife Armande falls for the cousin, to the dismay of Alexandre’s animated portrait and the maid Philomène. Armande dreams that the two Alexandres kill each other, that the goddess of marriage condemns her, and that Oscar courts her on roller skates. The next morning her husband returns without his beard and leaves for work. Oscar again invites Armande to a cycling lesson, and this time she accepts.