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Le Misanthrope

[ French luh mee-zahn-trawp ]

noun

  1. a comedy (1666) by Molière.


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There are five acts in "Le Misanthrope," during which Celimene is almost constantly on the stage.

Le Misanthrope, that supreme comedy, shows us that art consists in the power of building a palace on a needle's point.

"I do believe you have really turned yourself misanthropical by reading 'Le Misanthrope,'" he said.

After that anyone who treated the author of "Tartufe" and "Le Misanthrope" as a plagiarist would have been very badly received.

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