Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known by his pseudonym Moliere, 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 ... 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 Moliere is a story of struggle, hard work, domestic unhappiness, death and burial in obscurity and almost in shame,"" reads an article. Indeed, life was not always easy for ... by joining a theatrical company and for a time he was totall...

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... suggestion, which is negative, he only tries to reveal the positive of the situation. This feeling of insecurity is his way of disparaging the Irish and English government. In Tartuffe, Moliere's use's plot to defend and oppose characters that symbolize and ridicule habitual behavior's that was imposed during the neo-classical time period. His work, known as a comedy of manners, ... are dominate and have control over social order. Mariane's strong obedience to her father (Orgon) supports the Neo-Classical element that the individual is not as important as society. Moliere discusses logic ...

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... his thirteenth birthday, and was crowned three years later on June 7, 1654. It was during this period, in February of 1653, that Louis first encountered Jean-Baptiste Lully. At 14 Lully had come to France and worked as page to cousin of Louis XIV until his prowess as dancer and mime was noticed by the ... to be known as the Sun King. This nickname stuck and is what he is remembered by. A person important to Louis XIV was Moliere, an actor, author and a director. Moliere was born in 1622 in Paris. In 1670, during a stay of Louis XIV in Chambord, he wrote Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and first...

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