Word: lefrance
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Dates: during 1909-1909
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...Abel Lefranc, professor of French literature at the College de France, will deliver the third of the course of four Hyde lectures on "Moliere" in the New Lecture Hall this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The subject of the lecture today is "Moliere et les Milieux Sociaux de son Temps...
...CERCLE FRANCAIS, LECTURES. "Moliere." III. 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...
...Abel Lefranc, Hyde lecturer for the current year, will deliver the fifth of a series of lectures on "La Litterature francais de la Renaissance" in Emerson A, this morning at 10 o'clock, upon the special subject "La litterature et les moeurs. L'influence feminine. Le theatre...
Professor Lefranc traced the growth of the Renaissance revival of paganism, as opposed to the Christianity of the Middle Ages. The works of D'Urfee, de Scudery, Descartes and others who preceded Moliere are thoroughly pagan in spirit. The great bishop Fenelon wrote from a point of view almost diametrically opposed to that of the mediaeval ascetic Christianity...
...bitter opposition of generations of clergy, culminating in this explosion, forced Moliere into open conflict with the church. Professor Lefranc advanced the interesting theory that Moliere wrote "Le Tartuffe," not as an attack against religious hypocrites as a group,. but against religion in general. It was a defence of the legitimate existence of the drama, in the form of an attack on all those who wished to see the realization of the ideals of ascetic Christianity. "Le Tartuffe" is a turning point in the history of this revived paganism that culminated in Voltaire...