This article is taken from the
Figaro Hors-série “1622 - 2002 - What's new?
Molière!”, find in this issue
a special file on Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière.
A hard-pressed actor who became the king's comedian, court darling and object of cabals, he spans the centuries: his work plays and replays an eternal human comedy.
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Feminist Molière?
You are kidding!
His first big success was Les Précieuses ridicules and he did it again with
Les Femmes savantes!
What does he have to do with these pretentious ones?
Well, if he does not follow them in their excesses, he shares their revolt against the condition imposed on women.
Seventeenth-century France, like all patriarchal societies, cultivated prejudices against them that justified their enslavement.
That the practice has loosened the grip has not changed the laws that weigh on them.
Daughters escape the authority of their father only to pass under that of a husband, on whose choice they are not consulted...
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