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Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope)
by MoliÃ¨re

The Misanthrope on its appearance had twenty-one successive performancesâ€”a rather long run for any play in those days, when each one of the three theatres in Paris necessarily had a varied and constantly changing repertory.
The play satirizes the hypocrisies of French aristocratic society, but it also engages a more serious tone when pointing out the flaws which all humans possess. The play differs from other farces at the time by employing dynamic characters like Alceste and CÃ©limÃ¨ne as opposed to the traditionally flat characters used by most satirists to criticize problems in society.
The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, claimed (in his Letter to M. D'Alembert on Spectacles) that it was MoliÃ¨re's best work
MoliÃ¨re played the role of Alceste.

About the Author
MoliÃ¨re (stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (January 15, 1622 â€“ February 17, 1673) was a French playwright and actor and was one of the greatest masters of comedy in literature. His best-known works include Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope) (1666), L'Ã‰cole des femmes (The School for Wives) (1662), Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur, (Tartuffe or the Hypocrite) (1664), L'Avare (The Miser) (1668), Le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid) (1673), Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman) (1670), and Les Femmes savantes (The Learned Ladies) of 1672.
He was born in Paris. At age 21, he decided to pursue his inclination and joined a theater company. In his 14 years in Paris, MoliÃ¨re wrote 31 plays performed by his company. MoliÃ¨re is considered the creator of modern French comedy. Not only many words or phrases used in MoliÃ¨re's plays are still used in current French, but parts of dialogues have been imprinted into French peopleâ€™s memory.
MoliÃ¨re died in 1673, at the age of 51.

About the Bilingual Edition
Project Bilingual (A division of Wolf Pup Books) is a continuing project making available great original French writers' texts along with their English translation. This edition, which offers after every original language paragraph its translation, makes both grammar and vocabulary checks as painless as possible. Idiomatic forms that could be overlooked can be easily detected.
Furthermore, large paragraphs have been broken down to much smaller units so that the check is as effortless as possible. We do hope that by reading French writers that defined the language itself or whose work permeated the French culture, you will be able to get the maximum benefit from this language series. Although this edition is not a replacement for traditional methods of learning language, it is a very powerful tool to speed up the process once you have attained the intermediate level and beyond.
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Country	USA
Author	Molière
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Wolf Pup Books
Manufacturer	Wolf Pup Books
NumberOfPages	165
PublicationDate	2010-12-28
Publisher	Wolf Pup Books
ReleaseDate	2010-12-28
Studio	Wolf Pup Books

Le Misanthrope [French English Bilingual Edition] - Paragraph by Paragraph Translation (French Edition)

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