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The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
L’École des Femmes. Act ii. Sc. 6.
Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
 
1622–73, French playwright and actor, b. Paris; son of a merchant who was upholsterer to the king. His name was originally Jean Baptiste Poquelin. Molière was the creator of French high comedy; his genius lay in exposing the hypocrisies and follies of his society through satire.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.)
 
Pronunciation:  ml-yâr´ from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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Tartuffe; or, the hypocrite
Molière’s satire of the religious hypocrite. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXVI, Part 4.
 
Bartlett’s Molière Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
 
Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, 40072 to 40166
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.



 
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