Argan: the hypochondriac
The fifties.
Widowed, he remarried.
From his first marriage, he has two daughters, Angélique and Louison.
Rich, he does not work, moans all holy day.
His main occupation?
Enemas.
He is grumpy, angry, paranoid;
he is the puppet or the hostage of his hypochondria to such an extent that he urges his daughter Angélique to marry a doctor.
The memory of Molière's death is linked to this character who was his last role.
Argan will have had the skin of its creator.
His sentence: "
Isn't there some danger in pretending to be dead?"
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