The School of the mothers

the School of the mothers or the Famous Adventurer is a romantic Comédie in a act and Prose of Marivaux created for the first time the July 26th 1732 by the Italian Comédiens with the Hôtel of Burgundy.

the School of the mothers takes again the topic of the School of the women , but the Angelica of Marivaux is less naive than the Agnes of Molière.

Characters

Argante .
Angelica , girl of Mrs Argante.
Smoothing iron , following of Angelica.
Éraste , Angelica lover, under the name of Rowed.
Damis , father of Éraste, another Angelica lover.
Frontin , servant of Mrs Argante.
Champagne , servant of Mr. Damit.

History

Mrs Argante has accustomed her daughter with passive obedience. She wants to leave him only the freedom of the good, and it is her which is judge of this good. She holds it cloîtrée, equips it badly, and wants to marry it with a sixty year old man; all that with good intention, and to save the troubles to him which the inconstancy of a young husband could cause him. He does not come to him to mind which his/her daughter can be unhappy this arrangement. When she sees it sad, she believes that it is its character to be thus; she questions it on this subject, but she dictates to him her answers of the best faith of the world. - You do not like This marriage? - Not. - But it does not displease to you? - Not. - You do not have will: it is well, I will have some for you. - I will have some if you want. - It is not necessary. Of an excessive timidity in front of his/her mother, Angélique is however promised well once to be compensated she will see herself free. Éraste, the proper son of the old man with whom one wants to marry Angélique is in love with Angelica. It slipped, with the complicity of Frontin and Smoothing iron, in the house under a dress of lackey. He asks him an interview which it grants with eagerness and it acknowledges to him that it likes it, but its audacity does not go further. The old in love one has itself a discussion with it. - You accept my hand without loathing? ask him it. - My mother says it. - It enabled you to confirm it to me? - Yes, but one of all the permissions that one A. - is this by modesty or dislike is not obliged to use which you refuse the consent that I ask you? - It is not by modesty. Little by little, she acknowledges to him that she does not like it, and even as she likes another of them. These consents are hardly encouraging for him. It has sorrow however to give up this love, which will be the last of its life. It is said to him that the two lovers agreed to meet in the darkness. It affuble of a domino and hides in a corner to listen to the conversation. His/her son, who arrives the first at go, intending the domino to stir up, believes to deal with Angélique, and speaks to him consequently. The father flees. Angelica arrives then with Lisette. Éraste takes again a conversation which he only believes to be stopped. It is repeated that one likes, but the mother stops the duet in love. One brings light and very lights, with clean as with appeared. The father of Éraste decides Mrs Argante to grant the marriage of their children.

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