Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2004-03-01 Public domain in the USA. 82 Molière 1622 1673 Moliere Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Poquelin de Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, Jean-Baptiste Les Précieuses ridicules Reading ease score: 82.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Laurent Le Guillou "Les Précieuses ridicules" by Molière is a comedic play written in the mid-17th century, during the height of the French Renaissance. This work satirizes the pretentiousness and absurdity of the précieuses, a cultural phenomenon of the time characterized by a focus on refinement in manners and language among bourgeois women. The play serves as a critique of excessive snobbery and the social mores surrounding love and marriage. The storyline revolves around two young women, Madelon and Cathos, who fancy themselves as sophisticated and worldly. They disdain their potential suitors, Gorgibus’ nephew Du Croisy and La Grange, for being too bourgeois and lacking the refined manners they yearn for. The men, feeling slighted, conspire to teach the women a lesson by posing as noblemen. Mascarille, a clever servant, adds to the ruse, leading to a series of comical misunderstandings and pompous exchanges. Ultimately, the play highlights the folly of the précieuses and serves as a humorous reminder of the dangers of vanity and affectation in the pursuit of social status. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Comedies French drama -- 17th century PQ Text FR Théâtre Browsing: Literature Browsing: Performing Arts/Film Browsing: Fiction 103286 103222 2024-10-03T04:48:51.596486 2023-10-03T05:09:53.957676 text/html text/html 103279 103215 2024-10-03T04:48:51.822981 2023-10-03T05:09:54.104544 text/html text/html 96332 2024-10-03T04:48:56.568923 application/epub+zip 96517 2024-10-03T04:48:53.600941 application/epub+zip 96517 2024-10-03T04:48:52.451990 application/epub+zip 227022 2024-10-03T04:48:58.603933 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 216731 2024-10-03T04:48:55.904920 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 175291 2022-09-03T06:51:57.718796 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 78115 78102 2024-10-03T04:48:51.324977 2023-10-03T05:09:53.775561 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 76988 2013-04-16T21:01:06 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 28447 2013-04-16T21:04:44 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 19703 2024-10-03T04:48:58.724908 application/rdf+xml 14510 2024-10-03T04:48:52.995035 image/jpeg 4202 2024-10-03T04:48:52.718950 image/jpeg 95280 2024-10-03T04:48:51.830958 application/octet-stream application/zip fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia