Teaching Molière in class for today's social debates?

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Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as "Molière".

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By: Emmanuelle Bastide

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400 years ago, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Molière, was born.

Having become a classic during his lifetime, he forever marked the theater and his plays have passed through the centuries with eternal modernity.

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Whether it be the denunciation of hypocrisy and imposture in Tartuffe, the inferiorization of women in the Ecole des femmes, Harpagon's avarice and his greed in L'Avare, these human failings denounced by Molière revive topical debates.

How do teachers use Molière's work to make students think about ethical or moral questions?   

With :

Jan Novak

, French teacher, founder of 

, - international center for French-speaking theater in Poland and of the 10 sur 10 program - French-speaking plays to play and read, the writing residency program for French-speaking theater authors which brings together every year 10 authors, who write 10 plays of 10 pages with 10 characters and all that in 10 days. 

Claude Bourqui

, professor of French literature, specialist in Molière and 17th century European theatre,

(Switzerland), co-director with Georges Forestier of the edition of the

and the film

by Jacques Malater (2019) 

Claire Berest

, professor of classics at

And at the end of the program

: How to talk about death to children? 

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A weekly meeting to help parents, Ibrahima Giroux is a psychologist, in Dakar, Senegal 

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- Akhenaton

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- Lucio Bukowski

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