Le Misanthrope

Alceste hait l'humanité tout entière, y dénonce l'hypocrisie, la couardise et la compromission. Mais il aime pourtant Célimène, coquette et médisante. Le vertueux se lance ainsi dans des combats perdus d'avance qui l'acculent à la fuite... Molière y critique les m-urs de la Cour, l'hypocrisie qui règne dans cette société du paraître, où les comportements frisent la parodie.

Molière (born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622) was a French playwright and actor-manager. Molière's main achievement was in raising the standard of French comedy to a level commensurate with French tragedy. In doing so he created a body of work that would continue to be performed for the next three centuries, providing generation after generation of performers with some of their finest roles.