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Baptised on January 15, 1622, and probably born a couple of days earlier, Molière, whose real name was Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, and whose life was bound up with King Louis XIV’s court at Versailles, remains as central to French culture as Shakespeare is to Britain. Indeed, the French language is referred to as the "language of Molière" – la langue de Molière.
Molière elevated comedy to a level of respect and importance once exclusively reserved for tragedy. For him comedy was a way to reflect on society and he has kept audiences laughing for centuries, right up to the present day.
His most famous plays:
Les Précieuses ridicules (1659) ; L’école des femmes (1662) ; Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur (1664) ; Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureux (1666) ; L’Avare ou l’école du mensonge (1668) ; Le bourgeois gentihomme (1670) ; Les Fourberies de Scapin (1671) and finally, Le malade imaginaire (1673)•
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, more famous as Molière (15 January1622 – 17 February1673) was a French theatre writer, director and actor, one of the masters of comic satire.
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- Tirer les marrons du feu avec la patte ni chat.
- Pull the chestnuts out of the fire with the cat's paw.
- L'Étourdi (1655), Act III, sc. v
- On ne meurt qu'une fois; et c'est pour si longtemps!
- We die only once, and for such a long time!
- Le Dépit Amoureux (1656), Act V, sc. iii
- Je fais toujours bien le premier vers: mais j'ai peine à faire fransk artikel autres.
- I always make the first verse well, but I have trouble making the others.
- Le monde, chère Agnès, est une étrange chose.
- Une femme d'esprit est un diable ett intrigue.
- A woman of wit is a devil of intrigue.
- L'École des Femmes (1662), Act III, sc. iii
- Il y a fagots et fagots.
- There are bundles and bundles.
- Le Médecin malgré lui (1666), Act i, en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film 6. In this context, a fagot i
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Molière
French playwright and actor (1622–1673)
This article is about the French playwright. For other uses, see Molière (disambiguation).
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (French:[ʒɑ̃batistpɔklɛ̃]; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, ;[1][2][3]French:[mɔljɛʁ]ⓘ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today.[4] His influence is such that the French language is often referred to as the "language of Molière".[5]
Born into a prosperous family and having studied at the Collège de Clermont (now Lycée Louis-le-Grand), Molière was well suited to b