# Church burial is refused then grudgingly allowed at night; Molière’s share is as the targeted actor-corpse Date: 1673 ## The fact After 17 February 1673 [Molière](/people/moliere) died and was buried with controversy, at night, as an actor. His contribution is as the corpse targeted by a professional stigma, not as the priest. It is one event. ## Context A stigma can later improve actors’ civil standing in memory. Do not make him the author of the refusal. Molière’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. Actors’ sacramental status was the church’s rule. He died after the 17 February 1673 performance. Night burial at Saint-Joseph was a grudging exception. He did not write canon law. Stored as a targeting of the acting profession under his heading. 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 Britannica and Comédie-Française/BnF independently describe the 1673 death after performance and the burial controversy. Official or archival record: Comédie-Française — Histoire (https://www.comedie-francaise.fr/histoire-de-la-comedie-francaise; Comédie-Française). ## Significance A refused honourable burial is a minority-status harm to the acting trade, inflicted by office. A grave is not Tartuffe’s 1669 permission. A refused honourable burial is a minority-status harm to the acting trade, inflicted by office. ## What is established and what is not Established: 1673 death and contested burial. Not established: that he wrote a will requesting night burial as a joke. 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. They are not a public rating. ## People - Molière: https://factrail.ai/people/moliere ## Drivers - Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights ## Sources - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moliere-French-dramatist - https://www.comedie-francaise.fr/histoire-de-la-comedie-francaise ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-burial-1673