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

Date: 1668

## The fact

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

It is one event.

## Context

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

[Molière](/people/moliere)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers date the row.

## Evidence and sources

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

Official or archival record: The Miser — public-domain English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6318; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

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

1668 is not 1664.

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

## What is established and what is not

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

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Molière.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date, signatory, or non-occurrence; a demonstrated forgery; or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of other causes.

Contribution type is direct. They are not a public rating.

The attached driver is [income-inequality](/drivers/income-inequality). 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.

## People

- Molière: https://factrail.ai/people/moliere

## Drivers

- Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6318
- https://gallica.bnf.fr/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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