In 1954 de Tabaccoin filmed Ceux qui ne Savent Rien, his existentialist version of Albicocca’s opera, La Madre Pazzo, based on the iconic tragedy of Jason and Medea. In order to arrive at the authenticity required for a true Sartrean rendering of the legend, de Tabaccoin used, as actors, patients from the Malmaison psychiatric facility outside Paris. For the role of Medea, he chose Zelda Fitzgerald, who was an inmate there at the time. In the following excerpt, Medea applies for the post of royal nanny. The roles of Jason and Glauce are played by two unknowns whose identities the most diligent research has failed to uncover. (In response to some feminist critics' contention that Zelda Fitzgerald could not have appeared in de Tabaccoin’s film because she had perished in a fire, caused by male neglectfulness, six years earlier, we present the director’s own notes: “Si quelqu'un vous dit qu'elle est Zelda Fitzgerald, qui sommes-nous, avec nos propres mythes et les préjugés, pour l'interroger?”)