The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670)

by Molière

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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme est une comédie-ballet en cinq actes en prose de Molière, représentée pour la première fois le 14 octobre 1670, devant la cour de Louis XIV, au château de Chambord par la troupe de Molière. La musique est de Jean-Baptiste Lully, les ballets de Pierre Beauchamp, les décors de Carlo Vigarani et les costumes turcs du chevalier d'Arvieux. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Molière	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
d'Hermies, Rene	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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The Bourgeois Gentleman

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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

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The Would-Be Gentleman

The Middle-Class Aristocrat

The Would-Be Noble

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0486415929, Paperback)

Classic satire, one of the best by France’s greatest comedic playwright, pokes fun at the sham and hypocrisy of 17th-century French society. A wealthy tradesman, Monsieur Jourdain, yearns to become a gentleman in order to win the hand of a marchioness—disregarding the inconvenient fact that he is already married—but only succeeds in making a fool of himself.

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