Molière may also refer to Marinus Jan Granpré Molière (1883 1972), Dutch architect Molière (1909 film) (short film), directed by Léonce Perret Molière (1956 film), directed by Norbert Tildian, starring Jean Paul Belmondo Molière (1978 film), directed by Ariane Mnouchkine Molière (2007 film), directed by Laurent Tirard Molière (crater), on the planet Mercury Molière radius, in particle physics, named after Gert Molière, a German physicist.

Molière was born in 1622.

The 2007 French film Molière was more loosely based on the life of Molière, starring Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini and Ludivine Sagnier.

These people accused Molière of having married his daughter.

Later, Molière was granted the use of the theatre in the Palais Royal.

Molière had other enemies, too, among them the Jansenists and some traditional authors.

With music by Lully, Molière presented L'Amour médecin ( Love Doctor or Medical Love ).

Les Précieuses Ridicules won Molière the attention and the criticism of many, but it was not a popular success.

His first venture was a publishing enterprise which turned out cheap one volume editions of French classics including the works of Molière.

To outsiders, the land of Molière is a country where political leaders extramarital relationships are tolerated, while badly needed economic reforms are not.

But it was a commercial flop, forcing Molière to immediately write Le médecin malgré lui ( The Doctor Despite Himself ), a satire against the official sciences.

Pierre Corneille ( 6 June 1606 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian, and one of the three great seventeenth century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.

He was influenced by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Baudelaire, Molière, Franz Kafka, Honoré de Balzac and Jean Cocteau, along with most of the French existentialist philosophers.

In 1680, the repertoire consisted of the collection of theatrical works by Molière and Jean Racine, along with a few works by Pierre Corneille, Paul Scarron and Jean Rotrou.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière ( 1622 1673), was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature.

It is said that soon thereafter Molière became angry with Racine when he was told that he had secretly presented his tragedy to the company of the Hôtel de Bourgogne as well.

Molière reached Paris in 1658 and performed in front of the King at the Louvre (then for rent as a theatre) in Corneille's tragedy Nicomède and in the farce Le Docteur Amoureux with some success.

Houdon's subjects include Denis Diderot (1771), Benjamin Franklin (1778 09), Jean Jacques Rousseau (1778), Voltaire (1781), Molière (1781), George Washington (1785 88), Thomas Jefferson (1789), Louis XVI (1790), Robert Fulton, 1803 04, and Napoléon Bonaparte (1806).

In order to please his patron, Monsieur, who was so enthralled with entertainment and art that he was soon excluded from state affairs, Molière wrote and played Dom Garcie de Navarre ou Le Prince jaloux ( The Jealous Prince , 4 February 1661), a heroic comedy derived from a work of Cicognini's.