PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
PROJECT ASHABI
African Stories. Limitless Worlds.
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THE SHOPKEEPER TURNED GENTLEMAN. (LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME.)
_WITH SHORT INTRODUCTIONS AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_.
'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme' was acted before the King for the first time at Chambord, on October 14, 1670, and on November 28 at the Palais Royal. After the second representation, Louis XIV. said to Moliere, "You have never written anything which amused me more, and your play is excellent." But it obtained a still greater success in Paris, where the _bourgeois_ willingly and good-humouredly laughed at what they deemed their neighbours' weaknesses. The three first acts are the best; Louis XIV. hurried Moliere so with the last that they degenerated into burlesque.
Moliere acted the part of the Bourgeois.
DORANTE, _a count, in love with_ DORIMENE.
NICOLE, _maid-servant to_ MR. JOURDAIN.
_The scene is in_ PARIS, _in_ MR. JOURDAIN'S _house_.
Arthur Conan Doyle
