Molière

This biography tries to present the Molière that his contemporaries knew beyond the myth built on various legends (jealous and moody husband, dreamer and melancholic, actor gifted only for comedy, chronically ill), who still make up his portrait today. In order to know the figure of man, the itinerant actor, the audacious theater director, the ingenious creator, it is necessary to dive into unknown testimonies, forgotten documents that help to reconstruct the figure of man, his family, of an exceptional theater company , by an artist who became a favorite of Louis XIV, that the lights and shadows of the great comic author can clarify for us.