Word: argan
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Beline, seconde femme d'Argan...
Angelique, fille d'Argan Et Amante de Cleante...
Louison, petite fille d'Argan...
...Argan is a rich man, who, desirous to have in his family a doctor always at hand, who might attend upon him in his pretended ailments, intends to give his daughter, Angelique, in marriage to the new-made Dr. Diafoirus, the nephew of Purgon, his physician. Both Argan and Diafoirus are exhibiting, the former his credulity, and the latter his pedantry, in a most comical manner, which is still more striking by the cutting remarks of the servant, Toisette...
These two characters form an agreeable contrast with those of Beralde-Argan's brother, a man of good sense-and the suitor of Angelique, Cleante, whose modest and graceful manners are pleasing; whilst the delicate sentiments and sound reason of Angelique stand opposed to the affected mildness and treacherous advice of Beline, Argan's wife, whose object is to deprive her step-children of their father's property, but who is baffled in this attempt by an artifice planned by Toinette...