The prolificacy of Eugene Scribe, a French playwright and member of the French Academy, can be envied: he wrote about 150 plays. Vaudevilles and comedies - witty and mocking, with funny situations and paradoxical situations, lively figurative language and cleverly twisted intrigue - formed the basis of the repertoire of the French theater of the 19th century. The most famous in Russia was the comedy “A Glass of Water, or Causes and Effects” by Eugene Scribe. This play is still being filmed and does not leave the stage of many theaters. The collection also includes Scribe’s comedy “Partnership, or the Ladder of Glory,” which retains its topicality and poignancy, “Adrienne Lecouvreur,” which has a conventionally historical plot, and “Bertrand and Raton, or the Art of Conspiracy.”