# Monsieur de Pourceaugnac stages a provincial as a public Parisian punching-bag

Date: 1669

## The fact

In 1669 Monsieur de Pourceaugnac made a Limoges notable a court-and-town laugh.

It is one event.

## Context

Medium confidence. A regional joke can bind a court public and split a kingdom’s sympathy.

[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

Versailles/Britannica independently date the 6 October 1669 Chambord creation (public Paris sequel the same season).

Official or archival record: Château de Versailles (https://en.chateauversailles.fr/; Établissement public du château de Versailles).

## Significance

A typed provincial is a cohesion-flattening path.

A farce is not Tartuffe.

A typed provincial is a cohesion-flattening path.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1669 public Pourceaugnac. Not established: a unique Limoges harm coefficient.

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.britannica.com/biography/Moliere-French-dramatist
- https://en.chateauversailles.fr/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-pourceaugnac-province-1669