Life of Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known by his pseudonym ‘Molière,’ was born on January 15, 1622 in Paris. The son of a wealthy tapestry-maker, he lost his mother at a very young age and entered the prestigious Jesuits' Collège de Clermont, where he seemed to have become acquainted with many Latin, Spanish, and Italian comedies. It is said that his father was very hard on him, or that in this college he met the prince of Conti, or that he was a pupil of the philosopher Gassendi, but these statements appear to be nothing more than unverified hypotheses. “The life of Molière is a story of struggle, hard work, domestic unhappiness, death and burial in obscurity and almost in shame,” reads a
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Spanish Italian, Le Tartuffe, Illustre Théâtre, Imaginary Invalid, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, Louis XIV, Jesuits' Collège, laughing stock, Lachaise Cemetery,
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