Maxim's

**Text:** *The Lady from Maxim's* by Georges Feydeau. > "The lady from Maxim's" Here the restaurant is already the joke before the plot begins. Feydeau chose Maxim's because its name instantly conveyed late-night glamour, erotic risk, and Belle Époque notoriety. To have come from Maxim's is to bring the whole Parisian pleasure world crashing into respectable domestic space. Its role in the play is catalytic. Maxim's is not just a backdrop but a social detonation device: a single reference to it turns reputation fragile, marriage comic, and bourgeois order impossible to maintain.

3 Rue Royale, 75008 Paris, France