Since Alice Guy married Herbert Blaché and left for the United States early in 1907 (February), it is rather more probable that this film, which appeared late in the year, is the work of Louis Feuillade, whom she had named as her replacement and who had already been working with her since 1905. In fact, according to her biographer, the film was written by Feuillade and directed by the Italian Roméo Bosetti.
Similarities with Keystone slapstick are purely superficial. This is a very typical havoc-chase type European comedy of a kind that remained popular right up until the First World War (the Italian film Butalin fa i suoi comodi in 1912 is very similar). Such films are slapstcik but in a rather different way. The French and Italian films often have a slightly surreal note and the mayhem is nearly always accidentally caused and there is relatively little of the personal violence that characterises the US variety (beating, kicking, cudgelling, pricking with pins, throwing of bricks, shooting, bombs etc), which was all very much a personal legacy of Mack Sennett (such things are interestingly largely absent from the earlier comedies he made for Biograph under the eye of Griffith).