Molière, the Glossary
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature.[1]
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139 relations: Académie Française, Alexandre Dumas, Amphitryon (Molière play), Antoine Jacob, Apollo, Ariane Mnouchkine, Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, Armande Béjart, Ballet de cour, Beauchamp–Feuillet notation, Bleeding, Bourgeoisie, Canovaccio, Catholic Church in France, Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Classicism, Collins English Dictionary, Comédie-ballet, Comédie-Française, Comedy, Comedy of manners, Commedia dell'arte, Curtis Hidden Page, David Hirson, Dôme de Paris, Dog Latin, Dom Juan, Donald M. Frame, Duke of Ferrara and of Modena, Edmé Boursault, Enema, ENotes, Fabrice Luchini, Farce, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, French language, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Gale (publisher), Galley, George Dandin ou le Mari confondu, Guillaume de Lamoignon, HarperCollins, Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon, Henry Holt and Company, Hume Cronyn, Hypocrisy, Illustre Théâtre, Jansenism, Jean de La Fontaine, Jean Donneau de Visé, ... Expand index (89 more) »
- 17th-century French male actors
- 17th-century deaths from tuberculosis
- 17th-century pseudonymous writers
- 17th-century theatre managers
- Deaths onstage
- Man in the Iron Mask
Académie Française
The Académie Française, also known as the French Academy, is the principal French council for matters pertaining to the French language.
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Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas nocat, was a French novelist and playwright.
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Amphitryon (Molière play)
Amphitryon is a French language comedy in a prologue and 3 Acts by Molière which is based on the story of the Greek mythological character Amphitryon as told by Plautus in his play from ca. 190–185 B.C. The play was first performed at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris on 13 January 1668.
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Antoine Jacob
Antoine Jacob (1639, in Paris – 1685, in Aix), known as Montfleury, was a French actor, playwright and a rival of Molière. Molière and Antoine Jacob are 17th-century French dramatists and playwrights, 17th-century French male actors, 17th-century French male writers, French male stage actors and male actors from Paris.
Apollo
Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.
Ariane Mnouchkine
Ariane Mnouchkine (born 3 March 1939) is a French stage director.
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Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti
Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (11 October 162926 February 1666), was a French nobleman, the younger son of Henri II, Prince of Condé and Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency, daughter of Henri I, Duke of Montmorency. Molière and Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti are 17th-century male writers.
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Armande Béjart
Armande-Grésinde-Claire-Élisabeth Béjart (1645 – 30 November 1700) was a French stage actress, also known under her stage name Mademoiselle Molière.
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Ballet de cour
Ballet de cour ("court ballet") is the name given to ballets performed in the 16th and 17th centuries at courts.
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Beauchamp–Feuillet notation
Beauchamp–Feuillet notation is a system of dance notation used in Baroque dance.
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Bleeding
Bleeding, hemorrhage, haemorrhage or blood loss is blood escaping from the circulatory system from damaged blood vessels.
Bourgeoisie
The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy.
Canovaccio
A canovaccio is a scenario used by commedia dell'arte players.
Catholic Church in France
The French Catholic Church, or Catholic Church in France is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Pope in Rome.
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Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
The Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a former royal palace in the commune of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in the département of Yvelines, about 19 km west of Paris, France.
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Classicism
Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate.
Collins English Dictionary
The Collins English Dictionary is a printed and online dictionary of English.
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Comédie-ballet
Comédie-ballet is a genre of French drama which mixes a spoken play with interludes containing music and dance.
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Comédie-Française
The Comédie-Française or Théâtre-Français is one of the few state theatres in France.
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Comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: In Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters.
Comedy of manners
In English literature, the term comedy of manners (also anti-sentimental comedy) describes a genre of realistic, satirical comedy of the Restoration period (1660–1710) that questions and comments upon the manners and social conventions of a greatly sophisticated, artificial society.
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Commedia dell'arte was an early form of professional theatre, originating from Italian theatre, that was popular throughout Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries.
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Curtis Hidden Page
Curtis Hidden Page (April 4, 1870-December 13, 1946Date from New York Times obituary "DR. CURTIS H. PAGE; Retired Professor of English at Dartmouth..." published Dec. 13, 1946.) was a United States educator and writer.
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David Hirson
David Hirson (born 1958) is an American dramatist, best known for his award-winning Broadway comedies, La Bête and Wrong Mountain.
Dôme de Paris
The Dôme de Paris (originally the Palais des Sports) is an indoor arena located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Dog Latin
Dog Latin or cod Latin is a phrase or jargon that imitates Latin, often by what is referred to as "translating" English words (or those of other languages) into Latin by conjugating or declining them, as if they were Latin words.
Dom Juan
Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre ("Don Juan or The Feast of Stone") is a five-act 1665 comedy by Molière based upon the Spanish legend of Don Juan Tenorio.
Donald M. Frame
Donald M. Frame (1911 in Manhattan – March 8, 1991 in Alexandria, Virginia), a scholar of French Renaissance literature, was Moore Professor Emeritus of French at Columbia University, where he worked for half a century.
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Duke of Ferrara and of Modena
This is a list of rulers of the estates owned by the Este family, which main line of Marquesses (Marchesi d'Este) rose in 1039 with Albert Azzo II, Margrave of Milan.
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Edmé Boursault
Edmé Boursault (October 163815 September 1701) was a French dramatist and miscellaneous writer, born at Mussy l'Evéque, now Mussy-sur-Seine (Aube). Molière and Edmé Boursault are 17th-century French dramatists and playwrights and 17th-century French male writers.
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Enema
An enema, also known as a clyster, is an injection of fluid into the lower bowel by way of the rectum.
ENotes
eNotes is a student and teacher educational website founded in 2004 by Brad Satoris and Alexander Bloomingdale, that provides material to help students complete homework assignments and study for exams.
Fabrice Luchini
Fabrice Luchini (born Robert Luchini; 1 November 1951) is a French stage and film actor. Molière and Fabrice Luchini are French male stage actors.
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Farce
Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable.
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
Fitzroy Dearborn was an American publisher of academic library reference titles with offices in London and Chicago.
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French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
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Gale (publisher)
Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources.
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Galley
A galley was a type of ship which relied mostly on oars for propulsion that was used for warfare, trade, and piracy mostly in the seas surrounding Europe.
George Dandin ou le Mari confondu
George Dandin ou le mari confondu (George Dandin or The Thwarted Husband) is a French Comédie-ballet in three acts by Molière, with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, choreography by Pierre Beauchamp, and architecture/staging by Carlo Vigarani and Henri de Gissey.
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Guillaume de Lamoignon
Guillaume de Lamoignon (1617–1677) was a French jurist.
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HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.
Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon
The Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon, a former Parisian town house of the royal House of Bourbon, was located on the right bank of the Seine on the rue d'Autriche, between the Louvre to the west and the Church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois to the east.
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Henry Holt and Company
Henry Holt and Company is an American book-publishing company based in New York City.
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Hume Cronyn
Hume Blake Cronyn Jr. (July 18, 1911 – June 15, 2003) was a Canadian-American actor and writer.
Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is the practice of feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not.
Illustre Théâtre
The Illustre Théâtre was a French theatre company set up by Molière on 30 June 1643, and shut down less than two years later on his imprisonment in August 1645.
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Jansenism
Jansenism was a 17th- and 18th-century theological movement within Roman Catholicism, primarily active in France, which arose as an attempt to reconcile the theological concepts of free will and divine grace in response to certain developments in the Roman Catholic Church, but later developing political and philosophical aspects in opposition to royal absolutism.
Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine (8 July 162113 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. Molière and Jean de La Fontaine are 17th-century French poets and 17th-century male writers.
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Jean Donneau de Visé
Jean Donneau de Visé (1638 – 8 July 1710) was a French journalist, royal historian ("historiographe du roi"), playwright and publicist. Molière and Jean Donneau de Visé are 17th-century French dramatists and playwrights and 17th-century French male writers.
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Jean Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine (22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Molière and Jean Racine are 17th-century French dramatists and playwrights, 17th-century French male writers, 17th-century French poets and 17th-century male writers.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683) was a French statesman who served as First Minister of State from 1661 until his death in 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV.
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Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully (– 22 March 1687) was a French composer, dancer and instrumentalist of Italian birth, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style.
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Jean-Léon Gérôme
Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism.
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Jesuits
The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
Jeu de paume
Jeu de paume (originally spelled jeu de paulme), nowadays known as real tennis, (US) court tennis or (in France) courte paume, is a ball-and-court game that originated in France.
John Ozell
John Ozell (died 15 October 1743) was an English translator and accountant who became an adversary to Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope.
Kingdom of France
The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the medieval and early modern period.
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L'Amour médecin
L'Amour médecin (Dr. Cupid) is a French comedy written by Molière.
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L'Étourdi ou les Contretemps
L’Étourdi ou les Contretemps (The Blunderer, or the Counterplots), also known in English as The Bungler, is a five-act theatrical comedy by the French playwright Molière.
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La Bête (play)
La Bête is a 1991 comedy play by American playwright David Hirson.
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Languedoc
The Province of Languedoc (Lengadòc) is a former province of France.
Last rites
The last rites, also known as the Commendation of the Dying, are the last prayers and ministrations given to an individual of Christian faith, when possible, shortly before death, especially in the Catholic Church.
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trio of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.
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Lazzi
Lazzi (from the Italian lazzo, a joke or witticism) are stock comedic routines that are associated with commedia dell'arte.
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (translated as The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Middle-Class Aristocrat, or The Would-Be Noble) is a five-act comédie-ballet – a play intermingled with music, dance and singing – written by Molière, first presented on 14 October 1670 before the court of Louis XIV at the Château of Chambord by Molière's troupe of actors.
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Le Médecin malgré lui
Le Médecin malgré lui ("The doctor/physician in spite of himself") is a farce by Molière first presented in 1666 (published as a manuscript in early 1667) at le théâtre du Palais-Royal by la Troupe du Roi.
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Le Médecin volant
Le Médecin volant (The Flying Doctor) is a French play by Molière, The date of its actual premiere is unknown, but its Paris premiere took place on 18 April 1659.
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Le Vigan, Lot
Le Vigan (Lo Vigan) is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France.
Les Femmes Savantes
Les Femmes savantes (The Learned Ladies) is a comedy by Molière in five acts, written in verse.
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Les Précieuses ridicules
Les Précieuses ridicules (The Absurd Précieuses or The Affected Ladies) is a one-act satire by Molière in prose.
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List of Latin phrases
This is a list of Wikipedia articles of Latin phrases and their translation into English.
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Literary realism
Literary realism is a literary genre, part of the broader realism in arts, that attempts to represent subject-matter truthfully, avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural elements.
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Louis XIII
Louis XIII (sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown. Molière and Louis XIII are 17th-century deaths from tuberculosis and Tuberculosis deaths in France.
Louis XIV
LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.
Louvre
The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world.
Ludivine Sagnier
Ludivine Sagnier (born 3 July 1979) is a French actress.
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Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello (28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays.
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Lycée Louis-le-Grand
The Lycée Louis-le-Grand, also referred to simply as Louis-le-Grand or by its acronym LLG, is a public Lycée (French secondary school, also known as sixth form college) located on rue Saint-Jacques in central Paris.
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Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: Liyon), formerly spelled in English as Lyons, is the second largest city of France by urban area It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne.
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Madeleine Béjart
Madeleine Béjart (8 January 1618 – 17 February 1672), was a French actress and theatre director, one of the most famous French stage actors of the 17th-century. Molière and Madeleine Béjart are 17th-century theatre managers.
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV.
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Marquise-Thérèse de Gorla
Marquise-Thérèse de Gorla, also known under her stage name Mademoiselle Du Parc (1633 – Paris, 11 December 1668), was a French actress and ballet dancer.
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Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (p; – 10 March 1940) was a Russian, later Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century.
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Molière (1978 film)
Molière is a 1978 French drama film directed by Ariane Mnouchkine.
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Molière (2007 film)
Molière is a 2007 period biographical film directed by Laurent Tirard and starring Romain Duris as Molière.
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Molière's company
Molière's company (La Troupe de Molière) was the theatrical company which formed around Molière from 1648 onwards, when he was performing in the French provinces after the failure of the Illustre Théâtre in 1645.
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Monsieur
Monsieur (pl. Messieurs;; 1512, from Middle French mon sieur, literally "my lord") is an honorific title that was used to refer to or address the eldest living brother of the king in the French royal court.
Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
Monsieur de Pourceaugnac is a three-act comédie-ballet—a ballet interrupted by spoken dialogue—by Molière, first presented on 6 October 1669 before the court of Louis XIV at the Château of Chambord by Molière's troupe of actors.
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Neptune (mythology)
Neptune (Neptūnus) is the Roman god of freshwater and the sea in Roman religion.
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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1 November 1636 – 13 March 1711), often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic. Molière and Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux are 17th-century French male writers and 17th-century French poets.
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Nicolas Fouquet
Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux (27 January 1615 – 23 March 1680) was the Superintendent of Finances in France from 1653 until 1661 under King Louis XIV. Molière and Nicolas Fouquet are man in the Iron Mask.
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Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.
Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.
Orléans
Orléans ((US) and) is a city in north-central France, about 120 kilometres (74 miles) southwest of Paris.
Palace of Versailles
The Palace of Versailles (château de Versailles) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France.
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Palme d'Or
The (Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded to the director of the Best Feature Film of the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
Paris Opera
The Paris Opera is the primary opera and ballet company of France.
Parlement
Under the French Ancien Régime, a parlement was a provincial appellate court of the Kingdom of France.
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Père Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise; formerly, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in Paris, France, at.
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Philippe Caubère
Philippe Caubère (born September 21, 1950, in Marseille, France) is a noted French film actor, writer and producer.
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Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
Monsieur Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (21 September 1640 – 9 June 1701) was the younger son of King Louis XIII of France and Anne of Austria, and the younger brother of King Louis XIV.
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Philippe Quinault
Philippe Quinault (3 June 1635 – 26 November 1688), French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris. Molière and Philippe Quinault are 17th-century French dramatists and playwrights and 17th-century French male writers.
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Pierre Beauchamp
Pierre Beauchamp or Beauchamps (30 October 1631 – February 1705) was a French choreographer, dancer and composer, and the probable inventor of Beauchamp–Feuillet notation.
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Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille (6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. Molière and Pierre Corneille are 17th-century male writers.
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Pierre Mignard
Pierre Mignard or Pierre Mignard I (17 November 1612 – 30 May 1695), called "Mignard le Romain" to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas Mignard, was a French painter known for his religious and mythological scenes and portraits.
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Plautus
Titus Maccius Plautus (254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period.
Porthos
Porthos, Baron du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers (1844), Twenty Years After (1845), and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847–1850) by Alexandre Dumas, père.
Proscenium
A proscenium (προσκήνιον) is the metaphorical vertical plane of space in a theatre, usually surrounded on the top and sides by a physical proscenium arch (whether or not truly "arched") and on the bottom by the stage floor itself, which serves as the frame into which the audience observes from a more or less unified angle the events taking place upon the stage during a theatrical performance.
Psyché (play)
Psyché is a five-act tragédie-ballet, originally written as a prose text by Molière and versified in collaboration with Pierre Corneille and Philippe Quinault, with music composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1671 and by Marc-Antoine Charpentier in 1684 (music lost).
Richard Wilbur
Richard Purdy Wilbur (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator.
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Romain Duris
Romain Duris (born 28 May 1974) is a French actor. Molière and Romain Duris are male actors from Paris.
Rue de Richelieu
The Rue de Richelieu is a long street of Paris, starting in the south of the 1st arrondissement at the Comédie-Française and ending in the north of the 2nd arrondissement.
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Rue Saint-Honoré
The rue Saint-Honoré is a street in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.
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Samuel Chappuzeau
Samuel Chappuzeau (16 June 1625, Paris – 31 August 1701) was a French scholar, author, poet and playwright whose best-known work today is Le Théâtre François, a description of French Theatre in the seventeenth century. Molière and Samuel Chappuzeau are 17th-century French dramatists and playwrights, 17th-century French male writers and 17th-century French poets.
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Scapin the Schemer
Scapin the Schemer (Les Fourberies de Scapin) is a three-act comedy of intrigue by the French playwright Molière.
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Scaramouche
Scaramouche or Scaramouch (from Italian Scaramuccia) is a stock clown character of the 16th-century commedia dell'arte (comic theatrical arts of Italian literature).
Southern France
Southern France, also known as the south of France or colloquially in French as le Midi, is a defined geographical area consisting of the regions of France that border the Atlantic Ocean south of the Marais Poitevin,Louis Papy, Le midi atlantique, Atlas et géographie de la France moderne, Flammarion, Paris, 1984.
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Syphilis
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum.
Tartuffe
Tartuffe, or The Impostor, or The Hypocrite (Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur), first performed in 1664, is a theatrical comedy by Molière.
Tchéky Karyo
Tchéky Karyo (born 4 October 1953) is a Turkish-French actor and musician. Molière and Tchéky Karyo are male actors from Paris.
Théagène et Chariclée
Théagène et Chariclée, originally spelt Théagène et Cariclée (Theagenes and Chariclea), is an opera by the French composer Henri Desmarets, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 12 April 1695.
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Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré)
The Théâtre du Palais-Royal (or Grande Salle du Palais-Royal) on the rue Saint-Honoré in Paris was a theatre in the east wing of the Palais-Royal, which opened on 14 January 1641 with a performance of Jean Desmarets' tragicomedy Mirame.
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The Amorous Flea
The Amorous Flea is a musical with a book by Jerry Devine and music and lyrics by Bruce Montgomery.
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The Blasphemers' Banquet
The Blasphemers' Banquet is a film-poem created in 1989 by English poet and playwright Tony Harrison which examines censorship arising from religious issues.
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The Imaginary Cuckold
Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold (Sganarelle, ou Le Cocu imaginaire) is a one-act comedy in verse by Molière.
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The Imaginary Invalid
The Imaginary Invalid, The Hypochondriac, or The Would-Be Invalid (French title Le Malade imaginaire) is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière with dance sequences and musical interludes (H.495, H.495 a, H.495 b) by Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
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The King Is Dancing
The King is Dancing (Le Roi danse) is a 2000 costume drama by Belgian filmmaker Gérard Corbiau based on Philippe Beaussant's biography of Jean-Baptiste Lully, Lully ou le musicien du soleil (1992).
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The Misanthrope
The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover (Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureux) is a 17th-century comedy of manners in verse written by Molière.
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The Miser
The Miser (L'Avare;; also known by the longer name L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge, meaning The Miser, or the School for Lies) is a five-act comedy in prose by the French playwright Molière.
The School for Husbands
The School for Husbands is a play written by Molière and originally performed in 1661 in Paris.
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The School for Wives
The School for Wives (L'école des femmes) is a theatrical comedy written by the seventeenth century French playwright Molière and considered by some critics to be one of his finest achievements.
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The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later
The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas. Molière and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later are man in the Iron Mask.
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Theology
Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity.
Tiberio Fiorilli
Tiberio Fiorilli, also spelled Fiorillo and Fiurelli (November 9, 1608 – December 7, 1694)"Fiorillo, Tiberio" in was an Italian actor of commedia dell'arte known for developing the role of Scaramouche. Molière and Tiberio Fiorilli are 17th-century theatre managers.
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Tirso de Molina
Gabriel Téllez (24 March 1583 20 February 1648), also known as Tirso de Molina, was a Spanish Baroque dramatist, poet, and Roman Catholic monk. Molière and Tirso de Molina are 17th-century male writers.
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Tragicomedy
Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms.
University of Orléans
The University of Orléans (Université d'Orléans) is a French university, in the Academy of Orléans and Tours.
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See also
17th-century French male actors
- Adrien-Thomas Perdou de Subligny
- Alexandre Hardy
- Antoine Jacob
- Béjart
- Bellerose (actor)
- Brécourt (playwright)
- Champmeslé
- Charles Botot Dangeville
- Charles Le Noir
- De Villiers (playwright)
- Dorimond
- Florent Carton (Dancourt)
- Floridor
- François Datelin
- François Passerat
- Georges Guillet de Saint-George
- Jean Brioché
- La Grange (actor)
- La Thorillière
- Louis Deseschaliers
- Michel Baron
- Molière
- Montdory
- Nanteuil (actor)
- Nicolas Desmares
- Nicolas Racot de Grandval
- Noël Lebreton de Hauteroche
- Paul Poisson (actor)
- Raymond Poisson
- René Berthelot
- Rosidor
- Rosidor fils
- Rosimond
- Valleran le Conte
- Zacharie Jacob
17th-century deaths from tuberculosis
- Anne Stuart (daughter of Charles I)
- Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria
- Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck
- Cardinal Richelieu
- Charles Marshall (Quaker)
- Christopher Bennet
- Claudia Felicitas of Austria
- Cosimo II de' Medici
- Elena Cornaro Piscopia
- Ferdinand van den Eynde, 1st Marquess of Castelnuovo
- François Tristan l'Hermite
- George Herbert
- Hans Jacob Hess
- Hans Leo Hassler
- Henry Purcell
- Henry Scougal
- Honda Tadatoki
- Hugh Binning
- James Durham (minister)
- James Wadsworth (Jesuit)
- Johann Hermann Schein
- John Camm (Quaker preacher)
- John Eliot (statesman)
- John Harvard (clergyman)
- John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough
- John Rainolds
- Konstantinas Sirvydas
- Leonard Hoar
- Louis Moréri
- Louis XIII
- Marie Thérèse of France (1667–1672)
- Martino Alfieri
- Mary Middlemore
- Matthew Hopkins
- Molière
- Nicholas Culpeper
- Paulus Potter
- Samuel Butler (poet)
- Samuel Western
- Saskia van Uylenburgh
- Sir John Cooper, 1st Baronet
- Teodósio, Prince of Brazil
- Thomas Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Haddington
17th-century pseudonymous writers
- Amarilis (poet)
- Anna Maria Arduino
- Ariadne (writer)
- Bruscambille
- Chikamatsu Monzaemon
- Clarinda (poet)
- Jean Royer de Prade
- Mary Astell
- Molière
- Pudentiana Deacon
- Raskhan
- Sœur de La Chapelle
- Sieur Dubois
17th-century theatre managers
- Ana Muñoz
- Bellerose (actor)
- Catalina de la Rosa
- Catharina Elisabeth Velten
- Christian Thum
- Colley Cibber
- Cuthbert Burbage
- Francesco Andreini
- George Jolly
- Henry Evans (theatre)
- Li Yu (1611–1680)
- Madeleine Béjart
- Manuela Escamilla
- Marie Vernier
- Molière
- Robert Browne (Elizabethan actor)
- Robert Browne (Jacobean actor)
- Rosidor fils
- Ruan Dacheng
- Susan Baskervile
- Thomas Betterton
- Tiberio Fiorilli
- Tu Long
- Valleran le Conte
- You Tong
- Zha Jizuo
Deaths onstage
- Aleko Prodani
- Annie Von Behren
- Arius
- David Burns (actor)
- Death of Sarah Guyard-Guillot
- Dick Shawn
- Dieudonné Kabongo
- Dirch Passer
- Dominic De Sousa
- El Santo
- Elsa O'Connor
- Franco Scoglio
- Gareth Jones (actor)
- Gordon Reid (actor)
- Herod Agrippa
- Ian Cognito
- Isabel Bonner
- J. I. Rodale
- JoAnne A. Epps
- Lasse Eriksson
- Lillian Leitzel
- List of entertainers who died during a performance
- Liz Edmiston
- Malcolm X
- Mark Sandman
- Milan Lasica
- Milorad Mandić
- Molière
- Parkyakarkus
- Professional wrestling deaths
- Redd Foxx
- Rolf Herricht
- Sid James
- Tommy Cooper
Man in the Iron Mask
- Étienne Bazeries
- Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars
- Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan
- Ercole Antonio Mattioli
- François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort
- Great Cipher
- Henri II, Duke of Guise
- Henry Cromwell
- James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth
- James de la Cloche
- Lady in the Iron Mask
- Le Masque de fer
- Le secret du Masque de Fer
- List of candidates for the Man in the Iron Mask
- Louis, Count of Vermandois
- Man in the Iron Mask
- Molière
- Nicolas Fouquet
- Richard Cromwell
- The Fifth Musketeer
- The Iron Mask
- The Man in the Iron Mask (1923 film)
- The Man in the Iron Mask (1939 film)
- The Man in the Iron Mask (1977 film)
- The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)
- The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molière
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