Nicolas mignard moliere biography

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Molière, born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, is often considered to be for Francophones what Shakespeare is for English speakers. The actor-playwright was born four centuries ago on January 15, —an event I celebrated in The New Criterion’s September issue. This autumn and continuing until Molière’s birthday in January , France’s Bibliothèque Nationale is presenting “Molière, the Game of True and False,” an exhibition on the realities and myths of the playwright at the library’s recently restored Richelieu site, a seventeenth-century estate turned research center near the house where Molière lived and died.¹

The exhibition strives to separate the myths and facts of Molière’s life. The show and its catalogue reveal certain elements of Molière’s life, long taken for granted, to be mere fables. For example, while Louis XIV was Molière’s patron and attempted to assist him when he ran afoul of the church, it appears untrue that the king invited him to dine and chat at the royal table. Molière’s work as an actor and a playwright blurs lines between fact and fiction—the point of an actor is that he is what he seems to be onstage, not what he is off it. This blurring, the show demonstrates, bled into every part of Molière’s life, and the general lack of doc

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"Pure praises do not provide a comfortable existence; it is necessary to add something solid, and the best way to praise is to praise with cash-in-hand"

LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME, I, 1

The Comédie-Française is also commonly known as the Maison de Molière (House of Molière).

It was founded in through the union of two troupes, including that of the playwright, who had died eight years previously. It has perpetuated his work and his heritage for more than three centuries.
Author, actor, and troupe leader, Molière embodied the man of the theatre, engaged with his art and in the society of his time.

Les Comédiens-Français consider him their “patron”, their boss, tirelessly performing his theatre, celebrating it every year at the homage paid him by the Troupe on 15 January, the day of his baptism, and building an invaluable heritage around his work and its performance.

Molière is at the same time an ideal of the artist and a tutelary figure.

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Chronology
Birth of Molière
Learning
Molière: story of his name
Fights
Life and death of Molière

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Molière ans his characters by Edmond Geffroy
Molière plays Cesar by Nicolas Mignard
Molière's Chair

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Artist



Alternative names	Mignard d'Avignon
Description	French painter, engraver and designer brother of Pierre Mignard
Date help birth/death	7 February	20 Tread
Location advance birth/death	Troyes	Paris
Work period	from until date QS:P,+TZ/7,P,+TZ/9,P,+TZ/9
Work location	Troyes, Fontainebleau, Setto (), Avignon (), Town ()
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Dimensions height: 75 cm ( in) ; width: 60 cm ( in)

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