# The five-act Tartuffe is authorised and played as a public anti-hypocrisy comedy Date: 1669 ## The fact On 5 February 1669 the authorised Tartuffe opened to the public. This Fact stores that play as an anti-hypocrisy instrument (harm driver weakened), split from 1664 querelle and ban. It is one event. ## Context He revised under prohibition. Direct as the 1669 issue he staged. The king’s permission is shared context, not a reason to drop his authorship. [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 Tartuffe and Britannica independently date the 1669 public five-act play. Official or archival record: Tartuffe — public-domain English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2027; Project Gutenberg). ## Significance A public unmasking of religious fraud is an opacity-reduction path. 1669 is not 1664’s ban. A public unmasking of religious fraud is an opacity-reduction path. ## What is established and what is not Established: 5 February 1669 authorised public Tartuffe. Not established: that it uniquely reformed a parish. 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 [institutional-corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption). 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 - Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption ## Sources - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2027 - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moliere-French-dramatist ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-tartuffe-1669