# Dom Juan is staged as a public libertine who cheats poor and women as spectacle

Date: 1665

## The fact

In February 1665 Dom Juan was played, a public comedy of a noble who refuses debts of faith and of care.

It is one event.

## Context

The play also unmasks a grand seigneur. Medium confidence. The play was soon withdrawn under pressure — that pressure is others’.

[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

Gallica/BnF and Britannica independently date the 1665 Palais-Royal Dom Juan.

Official or archival record: Gallica — Molière printed works (https://gallica.bnf.fr/; Bibliothèque nationale de France).

## Significance

A hit libertine-noble is a humanitarian-norm cost of medium confidence.

1665 is not 1666 Misanthrope.

A hit libertine-noble is a humanitarian-norm cost of medium confidence.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1665 public Dom Juan. Not established: a unique alms 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 [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access). 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

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moliere-French-dramatist
- https://gallica.bnf.fr/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-don-juan-1665