David Brunat, consultant and essayist, is a director of the Comédie-Française Foundation.
He's a friend who wishes you well.
It will never disappoint you.
Frequent it all your drunk, consume it without moderation.
His good humor is unmistakable, his invigorating humor, his boundless generosity.
He's a friend you never tire of.
Full of resources and pleasantness, humor and good tricks in his bag, brilliant without bringing it back, benevolent without naivety, he never bores, always entertains.
What a spirit!
What fun!
He instructs effortlessly, makes people laugh without malice, scolds without bitterness or arrogance.
He is a beautiful nature, a good comrade on whom you can count in all circumstances.
When he speaks to you, you listen to him with all your ears, with all your eyes, with all your senses.
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And then his conversation is one of the purest and most captivating one can conceive. When he speaks to you, you listen to him with all your ears, with all your eyes, with all your senses. After having heard it, you meet in the office, in the street, in your family, the characters of which he spoke to you and which seemed straight out of his imagination. A real wizard!
It might look a bit dated at first sight.
It must be said that it will soon blow out its four hundred candles.
If you didn't know him, you might think he was dusty, starchy, wigged like one of those marquises of the Old Regime whom he so often ridiculed.
A classic ?
An intimidating, unapproachable sacred monster?
A dead star?
A retired courtier?
An old fashioned guy?
A has-been, as we do not say in his language?
Nothing at all !
He is the most modern, the most current, the most youthful of our authors.
Timeless.
Indestructible.
Timeless.
Four hundred years old but without having aged a bit.
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What kind of magician is he? He was not content to find the secret of the eternal youthfulness of letters and boards. This bastard, this rascal has succeeded over time (after having been copiously hated during his lifetime) the feat of making himself lovable to everyone, young and old, humble and powerful, learned and ignorant, men and women, feminists or not, progressives and reactionaries, devotees and disbelievers.
His company is pleasant and conducive to all ages of life.
Which makes him one of the rare writers, with his contemporary La Fontaine (born six months before him), to whom one invites oneself in all seasons with equal pleasure, whether one is of the age of a young or that of the bluebeard, the gallant or the matron, the accommodating servant or the sickly old master, Dom Juan or the Commander, the young girl to marry or the cuckold who sweetens the strawberries.
Playwright and actor, certainly, but also decorator, director and entrepreneur, Molière excelled in all the disciplines he tackled, and each time enriched, heightened, sublimated by his multifaceted genius.
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And with that, his storytelling is so dazzling, so pure, so marvelous that it has become the banner and chief ambassador of the French language. He represents it and embodies it in what is purest, most elevated, most noble and most natural at the same time. But he is not just a man of words. Playwright and actor, certainly, but also decorator, director and entrepreneur, he excelled in all the disciplines he tackled, and each time enriched, heightened, sublimated by his multifaceted genius.
Her house, as hospitable and endearing as possible, is full of life and surprises.
A real hive!
The Comédie-Française with its Troupe, the oldest in the world, provides the show with incredible talent and this mixture of absolute mastery and incredible audacity, rigor and madness, temperance and excess that characterizes its work.
When you think that he was not even received in the Pantheon!
But he doesn't care, come on.
His own pantheon, larger than all stone sanctuaries, is a cathedral of words, an incomparable gallery of characters, a complete bestiary of the human condition.
And the hearts of the public.
And the devotion of the actors.
Biting, never squeaky.
He says, presents the facts, depicts the characters, lays bare vices and ridiculousness, but without acrimony, without vengeful grandiloquence or authorial vanity.
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This affable friend knows how to bare his teeth and polish his weapons to fight against dangerous social viruses called cowardice, stupidity, brazenness, credulity, hypocrisy, manipulation, avarice, misanthropy... He possesses the science of men to the highest degree.
But this lucid humanist, this eagle-eyed sociologist is not giving lessons.
Biting, never squeaky.
He says, presents the facts, depicts the characters, lays bare vices and ridiculousness, but without acrimony, without vengeful grandiloquence or authorial vanity.
He also knows how to make fun of himself and he does not hesitate to do so.
In short, he's a sort of perfect friend, just as the language he speaks, that he speaks to us, is perfect.
Its frequentation is one of the most fruitful for the hygiene of the mind, for its recreation and its consolation, its elevation and its good balance.
It constitutes the best antidote to misanthropy as well as the most effective vaccine against sadness and vagueness in the soul.
An ideal medicine in a way.
Happy birthday and thank you for everything, dear Molière!
