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

From Time Magazine Archive

What an amazing masterpiece is the character of Celimene in Moliere's Le Misanthrope!

From Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac

Wycherley's Country Wife and Plain Dealer, although not translations, were based, in a sense, upon Molière's Ecole des Femmes and Le Misanthrope.

From Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

The portraits in that gallery of dramatic paintings, Le Misanthrope, have names inscribed under them; and the immortal Tartuffe was a certain bishop of Autun.

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

It is interesting in this respect to confront the two most popular dramas of the two dramatists, Molière's "Le Misanthrope" and Goldoni's "Il Burbero Benefico."

From The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern by Carlo Goldoni

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