Le Misanthrope
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Judged by Le Misanthrope, the engagements should be a success for France's mission civilisatrice.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then came Marston's completest work in drama, The Malcontent, an anticipation, after Elizabethan fashion, of Le Misanthrope and The Plain Dealer.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George
We see this in the French comedies of the eighteenth century, even in some of Molière's—in his L'Avare and his Le Misanthrope, for example.
From Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life by Flaubert, Gustave
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
As for the relative merits of Molière and Shakespeare, M. Stapfer has no hesitation in placing the author of Le Misanthrope by the side of the author of Hamlet.
From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar
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