# Molière

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) and in the Comédie-Française’s ancestral history (https://www.comedie-francaise.fr/histoire-de-la-comedie-francaise). On 24 October 1658 the company played before Louis XIV (Versailles https://www.chateauversailles.fr/en). 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/) 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) 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) is the anti-hypocrisy instrument. Le Misanthrope (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1657) and L’Avare (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6318) are public lessons. Provincial touring is access before the court. Louvre Collections (https://collections.louvre.fr/en/) hold the Mignard type used as a public face. Cambridge’s companion (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-moliere/) is a classroom file. BnF (https://www.bnf.fr/fr) 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](/people/william-shakespeare) as comedy counterpart, [Voltaire](/people/voltaire) as later champion, Rousseau as later enemy of theatre, [Goethe](/people/johann-wolfgang-von-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. Remaining dated instruments kept after dropping later editions, museums, and split rows: 1645-08-01 [The Illustre Théâtre collapses into debt and Molière is imprisoned as a debtor](/facts/mol-illustre-debt-1645); 1658-10-24 [Molière’s company plays before Louis XIV and becomes a court-dependent public troupe](/facts/mol-king-troupe-1658); 1670-10-14 [Le Bourgeois gentilhomme is staged at Chambord as a court comédie-ballet honouring royal taste](/facts/mol-court-ballet-flattery); 1664-01-29 [Les Fâcheux and later comédies-ballets bind Molière’s troupe to Lully’s court music machine](/facts/mol-lully-collab-1664); 1664-05-12 [Tartuffe is first played at Versailles and immediately polarises dévots, king, and town](/facts/mol-tartuffe-querelle-1664); 1665-02-15 [Dom Juan is staged as a public libertine who cheats poor and women as spectacle](/facts/mol-don-juan-1665); 1659-11-18 [Les Précieuses ridicules mocks women’s learning as public farce](/facts/mol-precieuses-1659); 1672-03-11 [Les Femmes savantes again stages learned women as a household disorder](/facts/mol-femmes-savantes-1672); 1673-02-10 [Le Malade imaginaire prints public doctor-satire that can teach distrust of medicine](/facts/mol-doctor-satires); 1669-10-06 [Monsieur de Pourceaugnac stages a provincial as a public Parisian punching-bag](/facts/mol-pourceaugnac-province-1669); 1662-02-20 [Molière marries Armande Béjart and remains head of a sharing troupe whose labour he commands](/facts/mol-company-labour); 1668-09-09 [L’Avare prints a public miser whose household is an extraction machine](/facts/mol-avare-1668-miser); 1664-08-05 [Public performance of Tartuffe is prohibited; Molière’s share is as the banned author, not as censor](/facts/mol-tartuffe-ban-1664); 1673-02-21 [Church burial is refused then grudgingly allowed at night; Molière’s share is as the targeted actor-corpse](/facts/mol-burial-1673); 1663-10-18 [L’Impromptu de Versailles stages rivals and his own troupe as a public identity-file](/facts/mol-impromptu-1663); 1643-06-30 [The Illustre Théâtre is founded as a public Paris company](/facts/mol-illustre-1643); 1646-01-01 [The company tours the provinces, making a public travelling theatre](/facts/mol-touring-1646); 1662-12-26 [L’École des femmes opens a public quarrel about a girl’s education and a guardian’s power](/facts/mol-ecole-femmes-1662); 1663-06-01 [La Critique de l’École des femmes makes the quarrel itself a public play](/facts/mol-critique-ecole-1663); 1669-02-05 [The five-act Tartuffe is authorised and played as a public anti-hypocrisy comedy](/facts/mol-tartuffe-1669). Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts.

## Dated facts

- 1673: Church burial is refused then grudgingly allowed at night; Molière’s share is as the targeted actor-corpse. https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-burial-1673. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moliere-French-dramatist, https://www.comedie-francaise.fr/histoire-de-la-comedie-francaise.
- The 17 February 1673 performance keeps a public stage open on the night he collapses. https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-malade-last-night-1673. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moliere-French-dramatist, https://www.comedie-francaise.fr/histoire-de-la-comedie-francaise.
- 1673: Le Malade imaginaire prints public doctor-satire that can teach distrust of medicine. https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-doctor-satires. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moliere-French-dramatist, https://gallica.bnf.fr/.
- 1672: Les Femmes savantes again stages learned women as a household disorder. https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-femmes-savantes-1672. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moliere-French-dramatist, https://gallica.bnf.fr/.
- 1671: Psyché is staged at the Tuileries as a public machine tragédie-ballet shared with Corneille, Quinault, and Lully. https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-psyche-1671. Sources: https://www.comedie-francaise.fr/en/artist/moliere, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Psyche-play-by-Corneille-Moliere-and-Quinault.
- 1670: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme is staged at Chambord as a court comédie-ballet honouring royal taste. https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-court-ballet-flattery. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moliere-French-dramatist, https://en.chateauversailles.fr/.
- 1669: Monsieur de Pourceaugnac stages a provincial as a public Parisian punching-bag. https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-pourceaugnac-province-1669. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moliere-French-dramatist, https://en.chateauversailles.fr/.
- 1669: The five-act Tartuffe is authorised and played as a public anti-hypocrisy comedy. https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-tartuffe-1669. Sources: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2027, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moliere-French-dramatist.
- 1668: L’Avare is issued to the Palais-Royal public as a comedy against household extraction. https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-avare-access-1668. Sources: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6318, https://gallica.bnf.fr/.
- 1668: L’Avare prints a public miser whose household is an extraction machine. https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-avare-1668-miser. Sources: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6318, https://gallica.bnf.fr/.
- 1668: George Dandin is played at Versailles as a public comedy of forced marriage’s misery. https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-georges-dandin-1668. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moliere-French-dramatist, https://en.chateauversailles.fr/.
- A 1667 Palais-Royal Tartuffe (L’Imposteur / Panulphe) is played then immediately re-banned, a distinct instrument from 1664 Versailles and 1669 authorisation. https://factrail.ai/facts/mol-panulphe-1667. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moliere-French-dramatist, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tartuffe.

## Methodology

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Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/moliere