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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

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 George Saintsbury

The best of Molière's works are, "Le Misanthrope," "Les Femmes Savantes," and "Tartuffe;" these are considered models of high comedy.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta

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

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