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| Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière |
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| 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.) |
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Pronunciation:  m l-yâr´ from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- Tartuffe; or, the hypocrite
Molière’s satire of the religious hypocrite. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXVI, Part 4.
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- Bartlett’s Molière Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, 40072 to 40166
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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