Molière may also refer to Marinus Jan Granpré Molière (1883 1972), Dutch architect Molière (1909 film) (short film), directed by Léonce Perret Molière (1956 film), directed by Norbert Tildian, starring Jean Paul Belmondo Molière (1978 film), directed by Ariane Mnouchkine Molière (2007 film), directed by Laurent Tirard Molière (crater), on the planet Mercury Molière radius, in particle physics, named after Gert Molière, a German physicist.

Molière was born in 1622.

Later, Molière was granted the use of the theatre in the Palais Royal.

Then he portrayed Philinte in Molière's The Misanthrope .

Molière's play, Les Précieuses ridicules , received its first performance here in 1659.

With music by Lully, Molière presented L'Amour médecin ( Love Doctor or Medical Love ).

Les Précieuses Ridicules won Molière the attention and the criticism of many, but it was not a popular success.

She first gained fame as a classical actress at the Comédie française, which she joined in 1972.

The 2007 French film Molière was more loosely based on the life of Molière, starring Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini and Ludivine Sagnier.

This was the so called Guerre comique ( War of Comedy ), in which the opposite side was taken by writers like Donneau de Visé, Edmé Boursault, and Montfleury.

Tartuffe, ou L'Imposteur was also performed at Versailles, in 1664, and created the greatest scandal of Molière's artistic career.

But it was a commercial flop, forcing Molière to immediately write Le médecin malgré lui ( The Doctor Despite Himself ), a satire against the official sciences.

This was a success despite a moral treatise by the Prince of Conti, criticizing the theater in general and Molière's in particular.

His first venture was a publishing enterprise which turned out cheap one volume editions of French classics including the works of Molière.

In 1680, the repertoire consisted of the collection of theatrical works by Molière and Jean Racine, along with a few works by Pierre Corneille, Paul Scarron and Jean Rotrou.

It is said that soon thereafter Molière became angry with Racine when he was told that he had secretly presented his tragedy to the company of the Hôtel de Bourgogne as well.

To outsiders, the land of Molière is a country where political leaders extramarital relationships are tolerated, while badly needed economic reforms are not.

In 1978, the piece bag Canudos staged in the theater prize Moliére in the special category, made in the national network announced in the Official National Rede Globo.

He was influenced by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Baudelaire, Molière, Franz Kafka, Honoré de Balzac and Jean Cocteau, along with most of the French existentialist philosophers.

Molière reached Paris in 1658 and performed in front of the King at the Louvre (then for rent as a theatre) in Corneille's tragedy Nicomède and in the farce Le Docteur Amoureux with some success.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière ( 1622 1673), was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature.

At Teatro Ipanema he rose to underground fame with his role in Fernando Arrabal's O Arquiteto e o Imperador da Assíria ( The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria ) (1970), and starred in his own A China é Azul ( China is Blue ) (1972).

Houdon's subjects include Denis Diderot (1771), Benjamin Franklin (1778 09), Jean Jacques Rousseau (1778), Voltaire (1781), Molière (1781), George Washington (1785 88), Thomas Jefferson (1789), Louis XVI (1790), Robert Fulton, 1803 04, and Napoléon Bonaparte (1806).