It is always good to see Linder but it helps to be able to recognize him.
Max Linder had appeared already in Les Débuts d'un collégien for Théophile Pathé, Charles' black sheep brother and subsequently in the rather similarly titled La Première sortie d'un collégien for Charles Pathé as well as La Rencontre imprévue (all lost films) but he most certainly does not appear in this Hatot film, which is extant and readily available to watch. A still from the film can also be seen in Richard Abel's The Ciné Goes to Town and the actor looks nothing like Max Linder.
McCutcheon's classic film (supposedly based on a true) story had already by this time been remade remade at least twice in the US under different titles (by Edison and Lubin - both extant and available films) and once in Britain as Personal by British Gaumont (reviewed February 1905), a lost film. Two Spanish versions also appeared in 1904-1905, Segundo de Chomón's L'hereu de Ca'n Pruna (extant and available) and, with the genders reversed, Francisco Gelabert's Los guapos de la Vaqueria del Parque (thought lost). Of the extant versions, Hatot's, even without Linder, is by far the most elegant and best-paced.