# Public performance of Tartuffe is prohibited; Molière’s share is as the banned author, not as censor

Date: 1664

## The fact

After the 1664 festival, public Tartuffe was prohibited. His contribution is as author of the banned script, not as the officer who forbade it.

It is one event.

## Context

A ban is a knowledge-access harm. The 1669 permission is a later improving row. Do not score the church as his deed.

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.

The 1664 prohibition is a royal/devout political act. He wrote the play; he did not sign the ban. Stored as a state instrument 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 history independently date the 1664 prohibition and the 1669 authorised five-act Tartuffe.

Official or archival record: Comédie-Française — Histoire (https://www.comedie-francaise.fr/histoire-de-la-comedie-francaise; Comédie-Française).

## Significance

A refused public run is an education-and-arts access cost inflicted by office, not by his pen as law.

1669’s authorised play is not this ban.

A refused public run is an education-and-arts access cost inflicted by office, not by his pen as law.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1664 public prohibition. Not established: that he drafted the minute of prohibition.

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

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## 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-tartuffe-ban-1664