Damaged Goods

Damaged Goods (Les Avariés)

    Author: Eugène Brieux

    First Performance: 1902, Liège

    Published: 1902

    First English Translation: 1911

    Genre: Drama in 3 acts; French prose

    Setting: Dupont's home, Paris, 1900s

    Cast: 5m, 6f

Georges Dupont is horrified to learn just before his wedding that his one youthful fling has infected him with syphilis. The doctor begs him to postpone his marriage for three years so that he may be fully cured without putting his innocent bride at risk. Dupont, the ‘damaged goods’, ignores the doctor's advice, marries, and has a child, who develops symptoms of syphilis. The wet nurse caring for the sick child soon learns what the problem is, and when Dupont's doting mother tries to prevent her leaving, she blurts out the truth. Dupont's wife collapses in horror and...

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