Molière
Sophisticated comedies of French playwright Molière, pen name of Jean Baptiste Poquelin, include Tartuffe
(1664),
The Misanthrope
(1666), and
The Bourgeois Gentleman
(1670).
French literary figures, including Molière and Jean de la Fontaine, gathered at Auteuil, a favorite place.
People know and consider Molière, stage of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also an actor of the greatest masters in western literature. People best know
l'Ecole des femmes
(The School for Wives),
l'Avare ou l'École du mensonge
(The Miser), and
le Malade imaginaire
(The Imaginary Invalid) among dramas of Molière.
From a prosperous family, Molière studied at the Jesuit Clermont college (now lycée Louis-le-Grand) and well suited to begin a life in the
Writing
Infos
Molière
Male
1/15/1622
2/17/1673
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Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
J. B. Molière