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...story tells it, taking an occasional liberty with the facts, Moliére was born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. His father was a master upholsterer and a minor functionary of the court, whose duty it was to prepare the king's bed three months of the year. He intended that his son would turn down the royal sheets after he had gone, but the young man decided to become a lawyer and went to Orléans for training. He eventually concluded that all lawyers are frauds and decided to become a legitimate fraud, which is to say an actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Hollow French Confection | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

...Moliére, PBS, five parts starting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Hollow French Confection | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

...that when it comes to turning history into television, the British are better than the Americans. Now it is clear that they are better than the French as well. American viewers have a rare opportunity to see a major French production, a five-part dramatization of the life of Moliére. It is, unfortunately, a disappointment, a beautiful but boring fête brillante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Hollow French Confection | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

...Misanthrope, the engagements should be a success for France's mission civilisatrice. In telling the story of Alceste, a man torn between hatred of the world's deceit and flattery and his own love for a deceitful, flattering widow named Célimène, Molière pressed poetic comedy and satiric wit to the edge of tears. Le Misanthrope is his bittersweet masterpiece. In a comedy of manners, Alceste's notion of telling the truth himself on all occasions and correcting the chicanery of the age clearly marks him as a crackpot bound for grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Fool for Truth | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...dispensing petits fours and nasty court gossip to a fine pair of dandies whose wigs make them resemble Bert Lahr playing the Cowardly Lion. When she leans back and says lovingly to poor, scoldy Alceste, "How boring you are!" while deliciously wriggling her toes, the night belongs to France. Molière and the audience are best served by Comédie Veteran Michel Duchaussoy as Alceste's best friend, Philinte. He speaks his verse, perfectly balancing form against feeling, never missing a beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Fool for Truth | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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