Molière [Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
(1622–73),French dramatist and actor, author of some of the best comedies in the history of the European theatre. Son of a prosperous upholsterer of Paris, attached to the service of the King, he was intended to succeed his father, but in ... ...
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