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Molière

[ mohl-yair; French maw-lyer ]

noun

  1. Jean Baptiste Poquelin, 1622–73, French actor and playwright.


Molière

/ mɔljɛr /

noun

  1. Molière16221673MFrenchTHEATRE: dramatist real name Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. 1622–73, French dramatist, regarded as the greatest French writer of comedy. His works include Tartuffe (1664), Le Misanthrope (1666), L'Avare (1668), Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670), and Le Malade imaginaire (1673)


Molière

  1. Nom de plume of Jean Baptiste Poquelin, a seventeenth-century French playwright. He is best known for his comedies of satire , such as The Misanthrope and Tartuffe .


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Molière, the playwright, is said to have been buried on site.

The key to their success is the language they speak, but not necessarily that of Camus or Molière.

Aristophanes has furnished jests for Rabelais, hints to Swift, and humor for Molière.

Last of all came the conventional scene from Molière's "L'Avare."

Various unfortunate undertakings, such as the publication of new editions of "La Fontaine" and "Molière," plunged him into debt.

Molière, the great French dramatist, presents a study which should fill more than one meeting.

With us Parisians this returning of keepsakes has been out of fashion since the days of Molière and Le dépit amoureux.

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