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Comic, classical in form, warm and prestige.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Molière
- First published
- 1892
- Pages
- 136
- Publisher
- eBooksLib, Nathan, Gallimard
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- gle, French, English
- ISBN
- 9782040160524
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Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) was born in Paris on January 15, 1622. His father was one of eight valets de chambre tapissiers who tended the king's furniture and upholstery, so the young Poquelin received every advantage a boy could wish for. He was educated at the finest schools (the College de Clermont in Paris.) He had access to the king's court. But even as a child, Molière found it infinitely more pleasant to poke fun at the aristocracy than to associate with them. As a young boy, he learned that he could cause quite a stir by mimicking his mother's priest. His mother, a deeply religious woman, might have broken the young satirist of this habit had she not died before he was yet twel
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