Special program 400 years of Molière!

What role internationally?

Audio 29:00

Molière (1622-1673) as Caesar in The Death of Pompey.

© Creative Commons

By: Pascal Paradou

1 min

This year, Molière is 400 years old!

An opportunity to celebrate with great fanfare one of the best-known and most performed playwrights.

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From

Tartuffe

to

Malade Imaginaire

, what remains of Molière's theater?

How to explain its timelessness?

What role beyond borders?

Was it an instrument of colonization? 

Program in partnership with the magazine Le Point – Hors-séries.  

With :

- Laurence Moreau,

journalist, editor-in-chief of the Point 

"Hors-série"

including the last:

Molière, the secrets of a genius

and

Martial Poirson

, professor of cultural history, literature, contributor to Le Point and author of

Molière.

The factory of a national glory”, 

published by Seuil

.

Curator of the exhibition 

“Molière, the factory of national glory.

at Versailles, an exhibition

 that can be seen until April 17.

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