{"id":34054,"date":"2019-10-22T22:53:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T20:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/?p=34054"},"modified":"2019-10-22T22:53:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T20:53:44","slug":"8-of-the-most-amazing-facts-about-moliere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/8-of-the-most-amazing-facts-about-moliere\/","title":{"rendered":"8 of the Most Amazing Facts about Moli\u00e8re"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>8 of the Most Amazing Facts about Moli\u00e8re<\/h2><div id=\"disco-3765408875\" class=\"disco-social-pug-2019 disco-entity-placement\"><p><div  class=\"dpsp-shortcode-wrapper dpsp-shape-rounded dpsp-size-medium dpsp-column-auto dpsp-has-spacing dpsp-has-buttons-count dpsp-show-on-mobile dpsp-button-style-6\"><ul class=\"dpsp-networks-btns-wrapper dpsp-networks-btns-share dpsp-networks-btns-content dpsp-column-auto \" style=\"padding:0;margin:0;list-style-type:none\">\n<li class=\"dpsp-network-list-item dpsp-network-list-item-facebook\" style=\"float:left\">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.discoverwalks.com%2Fblog%2F8-of-the-most-amazing-facts-about-moliere%2F&#038;t=8%20of%20the%20Most%20Amazing%20Facts%20about%20Moli%C3%A8re\" class=\"dpsp-network-btn dpsp-facebook dpsp-has-count dpsp-first dpsp-has-label\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" style=\"font-size:14px;padding:0rem;max-height:40px\" >\t<span class=\"dpsp-network-icon \">\n\t\t<span class=\"dpsp-network-icon-inner\" ><svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" viewBox=\"0 0 18 32\"><path d=\"M17.12 0.224v4.704h-2.784q-1.536 0-2.080 0.64t-0.544 1.92v3.392h5.248l-0.704 5.28h-4.544v13.568h-5.472v-13.568h-4.544v-5.28h4.544v-3.904q0-3.328 1.856-5.152t4.96-1.824q2.624 0 4.064 0.224z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t<\/span>\n\t<span class=\"dpsp-network-label\">Share<\/span><span class=\"dpsp-network-count\">59<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n<li class=\"dpsp-network-list-item dpsp-network-list-item-pinterest\" style=\"float:left\">\n\t<button rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.discoverwalks.com%2Fblog%2F8-of-the-most-amazing-facts-about-moliere%2F&#038;media=&#038;description=8%20of%20the%20Most%20Amazing%20Facts%20about%20Moli%C3%A8re\" class=\"dpsp-network-btn dpsp-pinterest dpsp-last dpsp-has-label\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Save to Pinterest\" title=\"Save to Pinterest\" style=\"font-size:14px;padding:0rem;max-height:40px\" >\t<span class=\"dpsp-network-icon \">\n\t\t<span class=\"dpsp-network-icon-inner\" ><svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" viewBox=\"0 0 23 32\"><path d=\"M0 10.656q0-1.92 0.672-3.616t1.856-2.976 2.72-2.208 3.296-1.408 3.616-0.448q2.816 0 5.248 1.184t3.936 3.456 1.504 5.12q0 1.728-0.32 3.36t-1.088 3.168-1.792 2.656-2.56 1.856-3.392 0.672q-1.216 0-2.4-0.576t-1.728-1.568q-0.16 0.704-0.48 2.016t-0.448 1.696-0.352 1.28-0.48 1.248-0.544 1.12-0.832 1.408-1.12 1.536l-0.224 0.096-0.16-0.192q-0.288-2.816-0.288-3.36 0-1.632 0.384-3.68t1.184-5.152 0.928-3.616q-0.576-1.152-0.576-3.008 0-1.504 0.928-2.784t2.368-1.312q1.088 0 1.696 0.736t0.608 1.824q0 1.184-0.768 3.392t-0.8 3.36q0 1.12 0.8 1.856t1.952 0.736q0.992 0 1.824-0.448t1.408-1.216 0.992-1.696 0.672-1.952 0.352-1.984 0.128-1.792q0-3.072-1.952-4.8t-5.12-1.728q-3.552 0-5.952 2.304t-2.4 5.856q0 0.8 0.224 1.536t0.48 1.152 0.48 0.832 0.224 0.544q0 0.48-0.256 1.28t-0.672 0.8q-0.032 0-0.288-0.032-0.928-0.288-1.632-0.992t-1.088-1.696-0.576-1.92-0.192-1.92z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t<\/span>\n\t<span class=\"dpsp-network-label\">Pin<\/span><\/button><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Moli\u00e8re. The mere evocation of this name sends us back to the apogee of French classic comedy. Even nowadays, Moli\u00e8re is considered one of the most important playwright who ever lived. His works are still among the most played in the world.<\/p>\n<p>In this article, I will take you through my top anecdotes to introduce to you one of the most famous French author, to whom the theater industry still owes some of its most important masterpieces.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34208\" style=\"width: 611px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/moliere_-_nicolas_mignard_1658.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34208\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/moliere_-_nicolas_mignard_1658.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Moliere\" width=\"601\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/moliere_-_nicolas_mignard_1658.jpg 601w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/moliere_-_nicolas_mignard_1658-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of Moli\u00e8re by Mignard &#8211; Public Domain &#8211; Source: Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Foreword about Moli\u00e8re<\/h3>\n<p>Moli\u00e8re, whose real name was Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, was born in Â鶹APP in the 16<sup>th<\/sup> Century. He was the son of Jean Poquelin and Marie Cress\u00e9. His parents are carpet sellers in the French capital. Little is known about Moli\u00e8re\u2019s childhood. The place and type of studies he would have followed before turning to playwriting still divides historians.<\/p>\n<p>The only sure thing is that Moli\u00e8re decided to leave his parent\u2019s household to join a travelling theater company as soon as he came of age. At this time, it was common for theater troupes to travel from town to town to play their works.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of his career, Moli\u00e8re was \u201conly\u201d an actor \u2013 that is he played other authors\u2019 works. It is only later that he would start writing his own plays.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Moliere and Tragedy<\/h3>\n<p>In the 17<sup>th<\/sup> century, one genre vastly dominated the theater world: tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, at that time, tragedy is almost the only style that is written and played. In this context, Moli\u00e8re started his career by playing tragedy plays, and most notably those by Pierre Corneille, another famous French playwright.<\/p>\n<p>However, Moli\u00e8re\u2019s talents for tragedy were not really praised by his audience, and he ended up facing many failures during his tragedy performances. To understand what Moli\u00e8re probably went through, it is important to note that the way people went to see theater plays at the time was very different than ours.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, during performances, it was common for the audience to openly respond, by standing up, applauding, booing, and even calling out actors directly. Sometimes, theater halls even invited stands to sell baked apples in the back, so that the audience could buy apples to throw at the actors should the play displease them!<\/p>\n<p>That is what happened to the unfortunate Moli\u00e8re as he tried himself to tragedy\u2026 he would soon leave that behind him to find his real talent in comedy.<\/p>\n<h3>2. To die on stage<\/h3>\n<p>Many fantasies have been written on Moli\u00e8re\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, according to popular belief, Moli\u00e8re would have died on the stage of his theater as he played Le Malade Imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid). However, the truth is slightly different.<\/p>\n<p>During the last performance of that play, and as he was portraying a sick man sitting on his chair, Moli\u00e8re started coughing blood. Thinking that the blood was part of the act, the audience started praising the actor\u2019s performance. One man of the theater company, however, realizing the real situation, had the curtain dropped, to evacuate Moli\u00e8re. He was immediately taken home and would take several more hours before passing away.<\/p>\n<p>Centuries after this episode, many still believe in the myth of the Moli\u00e8re\u2019s passing on the stage. The Com\u00e9die Fran\u00e7aise, one of the most important and prestigious theaters in Â鶹APP, still exposes the infamous chair on which Moli\u00e8re played his last portrayal of a (not so) Imaginary Invalid\u2026<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the Com\u00e9die Fran\u00e7aise, whose history is intricately linked to Moli\u00e8re\u2019s, is a major theater in the heart of Â鶹APP, near the Louvre and the Palais Royal (Royal Palace). You may see it thanks to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/tour\/paris-walking-tours\/paris-landmarks\/\">Landmarks walking tours, which you can book here!\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34210\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1024px-paris_-_fauteuil_de_moliere_a_la_comedie_francaise_-_peter-potrowl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34210\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1024px-paris_-_fauteuil_de_moliere_a_la_comedie_francaise_-_peter-potrowl.jpg\" alt=\"Moliere's Chair at Comedie Francaise\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1024px-paris_-_fauteuil_de_moliere_a_la_comedie_francaise_-_peter-potrowl.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1024px-paris_-_fauteuil_de_moliere_a_la_comedie_francaise_-_peter-potrowl-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1024px-paris_-_fauteuil_de_moliere_a_la_comedie_francaise_-_peter-potrowl-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1024px-paris_-_fauteuil_de_moliere_a_la_comedie_francaise_-_peter-potrowl-816x1088.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34210\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moli\u00e8re&#8217;s Chair at the Com\u00e9die Fran\u00e7aise in Â鶹APP &#8211; Picture by Peter Potrowl on Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>3. Moli\u00e8re\u2019s trunk<\/h3>\n<p>There are many mysteries surrounding Moli\u00e8re\u2019s life and works.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, apart from a few signatures on administrative paperwork, there are very few handwritten traces of Moli\u00e8re. Upon his death, his wife reportedly decided to sell his trunk containing all of his works.<\/p>\n<p>Legend has it that during the Restauration period (1815-1830) a man asked to be received at the French National Library, saying he had a worthy trunk. As it was late, the guards reportedly refused the man to enter, responding that no one could receive him at this time. The peasant accepted to leave but mentioned that he was bringing a trunk containing Moli\u00e8re\u2019s original works, and that it was a shame for the Library. It was the very last time someone heard of the original plays. The trunk is still to be found, to this day.<\/p>\n<h3>4. Moli\u00e8re, the King\u2019s carpet maker<\/h3>\n<p>Moli\u00e8re is worldly renowned as a playwright, but it is less known that he had an important function to Louis XIV\u2019s Court \u2013 and it has not much to do with plays!<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, if Moli\u00e8re is Louis XIV\u2019s mentee, and rapidly became in charge of entertaining the very culture and theater oriented King, it is lesser known that he entered the almighty King\u2019s Court by accepting a position of Great Carpet-Maker of the King.<\/p>\n<p>The task was then assured by his father, Jean Poquelin. Naturally, Moli\u00e8re took the way paved by this father but his secret goal was clearly to get close to the King and have his plays benefit from this proximity.<\/p>\n<p>In Louis XIV\u2019s France, all plays performed in Â鶹APP had to have prior approval of the King in order to be allowed. Therefore, in addition to writing and performing plays, Moli\u00e8re was in charge of making the King\u2019s bed, hanging tapestries in the royal apartments and overseeing the King\u2019s furniture. This little-known role at the Court of the Sun King allowed Moli\u00e8re to have a privileged situation and to have quite a lot of advantages due to his contact with royalty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/tour\/city\/versailles-walking-tours\/\">If you want to feel as close to Louis XIV as Moli\u00e8re was, why not have a look to our Â鶹APP Tours<\/a>?<\/p>\n<h3>5. Moli\u00e8re, a mysterious stage-name<\/h3>\n<p>As it is often the case with famous people, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin decided to use a stage-name, now vastly known as &#8220;Moli\u00e8re&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But still today, the real reason of the stage name choice is not known. Even during his lifetime, Moli\u00e8re is said to have always refused to explain why he chose Moli\u00e8re as his pseudonym. Not even his closest friends \u2013 his theater company members \u2013 were in the loop. A historians\u2019 theory, however, exposes that Moli\u00e8re could have chosen his stage-name in honor of novelist Fran\u00e7ois de Moli\u00e8re d\u2019Essertines, but there is no certainty on this explaination.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34216\" style=\"width: 832px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1024px-moliere_mignard_chantilly.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34216\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1024px-moliere_mignard_chantilly.jpg\" alt=\"Moliere\" width=\"822\" height=\"924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1024px-moliere_mignard_chantilly.jpg 822w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1024px-moliere_mignard_chantilly-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1024px-moliere_mignard_chantilly-768x863.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1024px-moliere_mignard_chantilly-911x1024.jpg 911w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1024px-moliere_mignard_chantilly-816x917.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of Moli\u00e8re by Mignard &#8211; Public Domain &#8211; Source: Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>6. Censorship and the Tartuffe Affair<\/h3>\n<p>The most famous plays by Moli\u00e8re are satirical towards the higher-classes of their time\u2019s society. In his plays, Moli\u00e8re doesn\u2019t hesitate to ridicule affluent members of Louis XIV\u2019s Court, using colorful characters. Moli\u00e8re\u2019s characters rarely spare the close entourage of the King, directly making fun of people who often happen to be in the audience, as the band performs before the King.<\/p>\n<p>It is as the plays are presented to the King that he can activate his Right to Censor, which means the King can demand to withdraw some parts of the incriminated play, or even deny the right to publish and perform it altogether.<\/p>\n<p>In the long history of Moli\u00e8re\u2019s plays censorship, one episode in particular remained famous. It deals with the presentation of one of Moli\u00e8re\u2019s major works: The Tartuffe.<\/p>\n<p>This play is a direct attack towards the Religious classes at the time, especially towards \u201cd\u00e9v\u00f4ts\u201d (those turned religious to some extreme extent). The first performance pleases the King very much, but the Religious crowds present that day \u2013 as well as the very pious Anne of Austria, mother of the King \u2013 are extremely shocked. Under the intense pressure of these people, the king Louis XIV agrees to censor the play.<\/p>\n<p>Moli\u00e8re, wishing to defend his play, found a clever way to turn the situation around and have the play approved: he replaced the very pious \u201ctartuffe\u201d (hypocrite) by a \u201cfalsely-pious\u201d man (that is that the main character only pretended to be pious while it was not true, thus not directly implicating the Religious classes).<\/p>\n<p>Although the incident could remain an anecdote, it marked a sharp turn in Moli\u00e8re\u2019s works. From that moment on, the playwright decided to no longer make fun of direct influent targets at the Court \u2013 which could have his plays censored \u2013 but instead to make fun of general habits and customs of the Court \u2013 which then allowed for the Court itself to laugh without having anyone feeling targeted and hurt. Like Tartuffe, Don Juan was another play that had to cope with censorship.<\/p>\n<p>It took Tartuffe five years to be fully granted royal approval\u2026<\/p>\n<h3>7. Madeleine and Armande B\u00e9jart<\/h3>\n<p>When Moliere chose to work with a theater company, he met with a famous family of the industry: the B\u00e9jarts. Most members of that family worked in the field as actors.<\/p>\n<p>Moli\u00e8re first met with one woman from the family, Madeleine B\u00e9jart. At the beginning of his career, the relationship with her was to last several years. However, slowly, the bond between Moli\u00e8re and Madeleine turned from love into friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Since he was no longer in a relationship, Moli\u00e8re met with many other women until he married another member of the B\u00e9jart family, Armande, years later. Armande B\u00e9jart was Madeleine\u2019s younger sister. She was nearly twenty years younger than Moli\u00e8re\u2019s former lover, a large age difference which fed a rumor.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34212\" style=\"width: 889px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pierre_mignard_portrait_presume_darmande_bejart_vers_1660.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34212\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34212\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pierre_mignard_portrait_presume_darmande_bejart_vers_1660.jpg\" alt=\"Armande Bejart\" width=\"879\" height=\"1019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pierre_mignard_portrait_presume_darmande_bejart_vers_1660.jpg 797w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pierre_mignard_portrait_presume_darmande_bejart_vers_1660-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pierre_mignard_portrait_presume_darmande_bejart_vers_1660-768x890.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pierre_mignard_portrait_presume_darmande_bejart_vers_1660-816x946.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 879px) 100vw, 879px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of Armande B\u00e9jart by Mignard &#8211; Public Domain &#8211; Source: Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Indeed, some saw in Armande not the sister but the daughter of Madeleine. Some people even went as far as wondering whether Armande was not the daughter born from Moli\u00e8re and Madeleine\u2019s relationship! By marrying Armande, Moli\u00e8re would, then, have married his own daughter\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Historians now mostly believe that Armande was indeed Madeleine\u2019s sister and not her daughter. But the rumor lived long enough to reach King Louis XIV\u2019s royal ears.<\/p>\n<p>As he was told that Moli\u00e8re was about to marry his own daughter, the witnesses reported that the King reaction was to answer to the messenger : \u201cShould he marry the daughter, then, I\u2019ll be witness at their wedding!\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3>8. The Moli\u00e8re Affair<\/h3>\n<p>Of all the anecdotes to tell about Moli\u00e8re, the most significant one is without a doubt the one that came to be called \u201c the Moli\u00e8re Affair\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It is a major controversy regarding the paternity of Moli\u00e8re\u2019s works. Started in 1919, this theory by author Pierre Lou\u00ffs states that Moli\u00e8re was not the real author of his plays, and that he was only the one who signed them.<\/p>\n<p>According to the theory, Moli\u00e8re\u2019s works would have been really written by Pierre Corneille. Still today, several authors think that this theory might be true. The lack of written traces by the hand of Moli\u00e8re is an important argument of this theory defenders. The argument that Moli\u00e8re, among his many activities would have barely have the time to write is also often given.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34214\" style=\"width: 549px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pierre_corneille_-_versailles_mv_2903.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34214\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pierre_corneille_-_versailles_mv_2903.jpg\" alt=\"Pierre Corneille\" width=\"539\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pierre_corneille_-_versailles_mv_2903.jpg 539w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/pierre_corneille_-_versailles_mv_2903-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pierre Corneille by Le Brun &#8211; Public Domain &#8211; Source: Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to this theory, Pierre Corneille would have used Moli\u00e8re to write satirical comedy plays which he didn\u2019t want to publish under his own name, being renowned and appreciated as the greatest tragedy playwright. Corneille would have then wished to protect his reputation and avoid endangering his name by assimilating it to the writing of poorly developed and risky satirical comedy.<\/p>\n<p>Many arguments in favor of this theory are given to support the idea that Moli\u00e8re didn\u2019t write his plays, but no evidence of it was ever found, and proven. To this date, this theory is still debated.<\/p>\n<p>It is fun to think that one of the most recognized comedy theater author could be a usurper. But until proven otherwise, let us still consider Jean-Batiste Poquelin to be Moli\u00e8re, the author of some of French most iconic plays\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">**<\/p>\n<p>These many anecdotes about Moli\u00e8re\u2019s life participate in feeding the mystery. Although a renowned author worldwide, is known about the playwright\u2019s life and myths and legends around him grew numerous.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these many uncertainties, Moli\u00e8re remains one of the most played authors in the world. He represents such a major part of the French literary culture that the French language is now often described as the \u201cLanguage of Moli\u00e8re\u201d. Nowadays, the best actors and actresses in France (and the French-language world) still receive a \u201cMoli\u00e8re\u201d Award every year, which is the French equivalent to the Olivier Awards in the UK or the Tony Awards in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Moli\u00e8re is to the French-speaking Theater what Shakespeare is to the English-speaking one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"disco-1660986091\" class=\"disco-amazon-box-2024 disco-entity-placement\"><div style=\"width: 100%; border: 2px solid lightgray; padding: 3% 6% 3% 3%; border-radius: 5px;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Planning a trip to Â鶹APP ? 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