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L’Avare prints a public miser whose household is an extraction machine

In 1668 L’Avare made Harpagon a public type of extraction inside the family. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Income Inequality.

L’Avare prints a public miser whose household is an extraction machine

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In 1668 L’Avare made Harpagon a public type of extraction inside the family.

Context

Satire can attack greed and can make greed a laugh without a remedy. Split as access on an improving row.

Molière’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Why it matters

A canonical miser-comedy is an inequality-norm object, not a tax.

1668 is not 1664.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Molière

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.55 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactL’Avare prints a public miser whose household is an extraction machine
    2. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

    impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 9 September 1668 · verified

    A canonical miser-comedy is an inequality-norm object, not a tax.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.The Miser — public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Gallica — Bibliothèque nationale de FranceBibliothèque nationale de France · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Gutenberg’s Miser and Gallica independently present the 1668 public play.

Established: 1668 public L’Avare. Not established: a unique credit-rate series.

Contribution type is direct.

Later museums, UNESCO listings, Loeb reprints, and 2024–2025 COP or NATO rows are not this event. Responsibility 0.55 and influence 0.55 bound the path; they are not a personality score. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Readers should open both named URLs.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorMolière
  2. contributed toFactL’Avare prints a public miser whose household is an extraction machine
  3. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

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Factrail. (2026). L’Avare prints a public miser whose household is an extraction machine. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-avare-1668-miser

https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-avare-1668-miser

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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