Mister de Pourceaugnac

Written by Molière, the part Mister de Pourceaugnac is at the origin of a Comedy-ballet represented with the Château of Chambord, for the entertainment of the king, the October 6th 1669, and given as a public to Paris, for the first time, with the Théâtre of the Palais Royal, the November 15th 1669, by the Troop of Roy.

Molière would have had the idea to write it to ridicule the the Limousin S after his passage to Ambazac, where it would have received a poor reception on behalf of the local nobility.

Presentation

Comedy-ballet written by Molière with Chambord, for the entertainment of the king, in the month of September 1669, and represented in public in Paris, for the first time, with the theater of the Palais Royal, on November 15th of the same year 1669 by the troop of the king. This work, which obtains a very sharp success, is represented forty-nine times of living of its author.

Characters

  • Mr. de Pourceaugnac.
  • Oronte.
  • Julie, girl of Oronte.
  • Nerine, woman of intrigue.
  • Lucette, Gascon pretense.
  • Eraste, lover of Julie.
  • Sbrigani, Neapolitan, man of intrigue.
  • First and second doctors.
  • the Apothecary.

Summary

Two young lovers, Eraste and Julie, draw aside an undesirable applicant, Mister de Pourceaugnac, thanks to deceptions of cheating, Sbrigani.

As it is often the case in the parts of Molière, the easily deceived ones are the old men; here Oronte, father of the young girl, and Mr. de Pourceaugnac, main victim and ridiculous character.

Famous counterparts

  • They start here by making hang a man, and then they make him its lawsuit. (Sbrigani, act III, scene II)

See too

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