Word: auvergnat
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...didactic works. Labiche, nevertheless, borrowed much from Moliere, and, in fact he and his contemporaries were "gleaners of Moliere's harvest." One of Moliere's most successful types, that of the bourgeois who is bold abroad but with his wife "timide," is often well used by Labiche. "L'Auvergnat," acted by the Cercle Francais in 1888--"Le Voyage de M. Perrichon" and "La Poudre aux Yeux," also produced by the Cercle, are three of his most successful plays. Others of his best known works are "Le Chapeau de Paille d'Italie," "La Cagnotte," "Le Misanthrope," "Celimare, le Bien Aime...