# Le Misanthrope opens as a public comedy of sincerity against courtly lying

Date: 1666

## The fact

On 4 June 1666 Le Misanthrope opened.

It is one event.

## Context

Alceste can be a crank. The play still made sincerity a civic object. Split doctor-satires.

[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 Misanthrope and Britannica independently date the 1666 Palais-Royal play.

Official or archival record: The Misanthrope — public-domain English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1657; Project Gutenberg).

## Significance

A canonical sincerity-comedy is a cohesion-and-honesty teaching object.

1666 is not 1665 Dom Juan.

A canonical sincerity-comedy is a cohesion-and-honesty teaching object.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 4 June 1666 opening. Not established: a unique trust survey.

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 [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion). 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

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1657
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moliere-French-dramatist

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-misanthrope-1666