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...final Hyde lecture on "Moliere" will be delivered by Professor Abel Lefranc, of the College de France, Paris, in the New Lecture Hall this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The address will be devoted to a consideration of the social conditions of Moliere's age and to a study of the feminine elements which are important in his works...
...third Hyde lecture on "Moliere," delivered yesterday by Professor Abel Lefranc, the eminent authority on the literature of the French Renaissance, was devoted chiefly to a discussion of the relations of "Don Juan" to the great quarrel treated in the previous lecture and to a consideration of "Le Misanthrope...
Professor Lefranc advanced another interesting theory, that Moliere wrote "Don Juan" as an attack on his former patron, the Prince de Conti, who had lately gone over to the church party and had inveighed against. "Le Tartuffe" from that point of view. This great blow to Moliere was revenged by the faithful portrayal of the Prince in the figure of the libertine, Don Juan...
...final lecture of the series will be given Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. M. Lefranc will sketch briefly the social conditions of Moliere's age and will also treat of the feminine element in his works...
...CERCLE FRANCAIS LECTURES. "Moliere." IV. Professor Lefranc. New Lecture Hall, 4 P.M. Admission by ticket until five minutes before the beginning of the lecture; after that time open to the public...