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Molière

Molière

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French playwright and actor (1622–1673). Documented harms: 1645 debt-prison, court dependence, Lully industry, Tartuffe querelle, anti-précieuse farces, doctor-satires. Burial refusal is the church’s.

Court-troupe comedy under Louis XIVanti-hypocrisy plays against dévotslater Comédie-Française repertoire he did not charter

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Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The page is not a house mascot and not a secular saint of free speech. The heaviest documented costs he signed are court dependence, querelle polarisation, anti-précieuse types, and doctor-satire. The heaviest later costs under his heading are the 1664 ban (state), 1680 monopoly (state), and 1673 burial stigma (church). The offsets are real: 1643 company, École des femmes, 1669 Tartuffe, Misanthrope, Répertoire access. He did not file 1680. Confidence is high on openings and prohibitions, medium on analogical drivers.

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Accountability & contradictions

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Responsibility

What could change this assessment

  • 7 linked facts have no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (1643–1673).

Causal path

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  1. PersonMolière
  2. FactChurch burial is refused then grudgingly allowed at night; Molière’s share is as the targeted actor-corpse
  3. DriverProtection of Minority Rights
  1. PersonMolière
  2. FactThe 17 February 1673 performance keeps a public stage open on the night he collapses
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access
  1. PersonMolière
  2. FactLe Malade imaginaire prints public doctor-satire that can teach distrust of medicine
  3. DriverHealth system capacity stress

Timeline

The most relevant dated facts, newest first.

  1. 21 February 1673 · Protection of Minority Rights

    Church burial is refused then grudgingly allowed at night; Molière’s share is as the targeted actor-corpse

  2. 17 February 1673 · Digital Learning Access

    The 17 February 1673 performance keeps a public stage open on the night he collapses

  3. 10 February 1673 · Health system capacity stress

    Le Malade imaginaire prints public doctor-satire that can teach distrust of medicine

  4. 11 March 1672 · Protection of Minority Rights

    Les Femmes savantes again stages learned women as a household disorder

  5. 17 January 1671 · Labour-Market Tightness

    Psyché is staged at the Tuileries as a public machine tragédie-ballet shared with Corneille, Quinault, and Lully

  6. 14 October 1670 · Democratic Resilience

    Le Bourgeois gentilhomme is staged at Chambord as a court comédie-ballet honouring royal taste

Evidence & methodology

How the record is sourced and how the score is derived.

30 of 30 linked facts verified, drawing on 10 distinct sources (1643–1673).

Sources include Comédie-Française, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Établissement public du château de Versailles, Project Gutenberg, Musée du Louvre.

Sources (showing 8 of 10)

  1. 1.Gallica — Bibliothèque nationale de FranceBibliothèque nationale de France
  2. 2.Comédie-Française — HistoireComédie-Française
  3. 3.Château de VersaillesÉtablissement public du château de Versailles
  4. 4.The Miser — public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg
  5. 5.Britannica — Psyché (play by Molière)Encyclopaedia Britannica
  6. 6.Tartuffe — public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg
  7. 7.Britannica — TartuffeEncyclopaedia Britannica
  8. 8.The Misanthrope — public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 10

Expert analysis

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The first fact about Molière in a public catalog is a failed company and a court. The Illustre Théâtre (1643) and 1645 debt-prison are in Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moliere (opens in a new tab)) and in the Comédie-Française’s ancestral history (https://www.comedie-francaise.fr/histoire-de-la-comedie-francaise (opens in a new tab)). On 24 October 1658 the company played before Louis XIV (Versailles https://www.chateauversailles.fr/en (opens in a new tab)). Patronage is both a door and a dependence. Tartuffe’s 12 May 1664 premiere at the Plaisirs de l’île enchantée polarised dévots; the subsequent prohibition is the state’s (he is the banned author, not the censor). Dom Juan (1665) glamorises a grandee’s harm and also unmasks him — split signs. Les Précieuses ridicules (1659) and Les Femmes savantes (1672) police women’s learning as farce. Le Malade imaginaire (10–17 February 1673; Gallica https://gallica.bnf.fr/ (opens in a new tab)) teaches doctor-distrust while he dies after the last night. Lully collaborations bind comedy to a court music industry. The 1680 Comédie-Française monopoly (https://www.comedie-francaise.fr/linstitution (opens in a new tab)) is a posthumous gate. Burial controversy is the church’s stigma against actors. The offsets are also documents. L’École des femmes (26 December 1662) attacks a guardian’s programme of ignorance. The 5 February 1669 authorised Tartuffe (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2027 (opens in a new tab)) is the anti-hypocrisy instrument. Le Misanthrope (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1657 (opens in a new tab)) and L’Avare (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6318 (opens in a new tab)) are public lessons. Provincial touring is access before the court. Louvre Collections (https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ (opens in a new tab)) hold the Mignard type used as a public face. Cambridge’s companion (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-moliere/ (opens in a new tab)) is a classroom file. BnF (https://www.bnf.fr/fr (opens in a new tab)) holds the printed plays. What the score must not say: that he signed 1680; that he authored canon law on actors; that doctor-satire is a 1673 mortality table; that Précieuses is a closing of women’s schools; that a 1997 scan undid 1664. Direct is honest for Palais-Royal openings. Complex is honest for ban, monopoly, burial, and museums. Confidence is high on those URLs, medium on analogical health and data signs. 1643 is not 1658. 1664 is not 1669. 1673 is not 1680. Related people are Shakespeare as comedy counterpart, Voltaire as later champion, Rousseau as later enemy of theatre, Goethe as European-stage counterpart, Louis XIV as patron, Lully as music partner, Corneille and Racine as tragic counterparts, Armande Béjart as wife-player. The useful question is which public pages still move hypocrisy, court, and knowledge drivers without inventing a 1645 diary. Keep 1643 1658 1664 1669 1673 and 1680 on separate dates. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts.

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