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Le Misanthrope

American  
[luh mee-zahn-trawp] / lə mi zɑ̃ˈtrɔp /

noun

  1. a comedy (1666) by Molière.


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A fortnight ago the Com�die opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with Moli�re's Le Misanthrope as part of a four-week visit to New York and Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center.

From Time Magazine Archive

Far from the great Moli�re of Le Misanthrope, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme is indeed not only broad Moli�re, but also broad comedy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Judged by Le Misanthrope, the engagements should be a success for France's mission civilisatrice.

From Time Magazine Archive

The constancy of Molière was interrupted by another actress, Du Parc; beautiful but insensible, she only tormented the poet, and furnished him with some severe lessons for the coquetry of his Celimène, in Le Misanthrope.

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac

As it has been remarked, the very titles of these plays, Le Misanthrope, Le Joueur, Le Grondeur, show their defects.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

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