The expression comes from a well known nursery rhyme:
ainsi font, font, font, les petites marionnettes.
The person singing is moving his hands simulating the puppets and when the following verse ends:
Trois p’tits tours et puis s’en vont
he hides his hands under is back and the baby laughs out loud.
In your examples, the metaphor is : after the show, a puppet disappears, i.e. after five years of marriage, one of the spouses is suddenly leaving.
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