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According to this biography, Moliére was as unhappy with his own life as he was with the life he saw around him. He rejected the aging Madeleine (Joséphine Derenne) and married her coquettish younger sister Armande (Brigitte Catillon), 20 years his junior. Armande, in turn, made him a cuckold and a figure of ridicule for his enemies. The king withdrew much of his support, and toward the end of his life Moliére felt that his talent had dried up. He contracted tuberculosis, and one night, after playing the lead in his last play...
...France grotesque emergencies which no man could foresee are left for solution to the President, normally an honored puppet in his Elysee Palace. Last week sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun brooded over the grotesquery presented by two children of Catillon...
...they added, had already been named Alfred Pinteau. Prudently the President of the Republic bowed to a fact of nature. The law, he decreed, should in this case be set aside. Proud 12-year-old Adrienne Delamare announced that she will be married Oct. 7 by the Mayor of Catillon. "She will be the Youngest Wife in France," boasted bold Henri Pinteau, "and I shall be the Youngest Husband...
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