France and theater lovers around the world celebrate 400 years of Molière

The French capital will be the main venue for the tributes, although Versailles, where he triumphed at the court of his great protector, King Louis XIV, will also honor him.

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France and theater lovers around the world will celebrate, starting this Saturday, the 400th anniversary of the birth of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, Molière, the most popular playwright in the French language.

Known primarily for his comedies, Molière created characters such as “The Bourgeois Gentleman”, “The Miser” or “Tartuffe” who have become part of world literature and popular wisdom, such as Don Quixote Cervantes or William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin was baptized on January 15, 1622 (he would have been born one or two days earlier) in Paris, and died in the same city ​​that elevated him on February 17, 1673.

The French capital will be the main venue for the tributes, although Versailles, where he triumphed at the court of his great protector, King Louis XIV will also honor him.

With the quadricentennial, voices have arisen in France asking for Molière to enter the Pantheon, where the remains of the great national personalities. An idea defended, among others, by the actor Francis Huster, one of the great interpreters of Molière, or the conservative politician and presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse.

The Elysée Palace rules out that possibility, in a statement sent to AFP in which he recalls that all the figures enthroned in the Parisian mausoleum are “after the Age of Enlightenment and the Revolution” of 1789.

In the heart of Paris

The celebrations will take place in the places that marked the career of the actor, director and author, beginning with his “home”, the French Comedy, which was created seven years after his death to house his theater company.

Until July, the actors of the French Comedy will exclusively perform works by the playwright, beginning with “Tartuffe or the Hypocrite” from January 15, in an original and uncensored version, based on the work of the great current biographer de Moliere, Georges F. orestier.

As every January 15, the actors will gather around a bust of the playwright placed solemnly on stage, and will recite a replica of his works.

This ceremony, after the interpretation of Tartuffe, will be broadcast live in movie theaters, which also participate in the tributes with the transmission of works such as “The Imaginary Sick”.

Molière was born and lived most of his life two steps away from what would become the French Comedy. The royal court was still located in the heart of Paris when he began his theatrical career.

“Molière is in the air, everywhere,” Dominique Blanc, a one of the most admired actresses of the “troupe” of the French Comedy, who assures that she has a “relationship of camaraderie” with the author of “The Ridiculous Precious Ones”.

Another acquaintance stage and film actor Denis Podalydès says he is not “superstitious” about the presence of Molière’s spirit in the house. “It sleeps in the books until you play it, and that’s when it comes to life,” he says.

At Versailles, which houses its own opera house, they will return to the stage the “comedies-ballets” that Molière created in complicity with the Baroque composer Lully. The palace will also host an exhibition starting this Saturday.

Molière triumphed in Paris, but before that he had to spend long years traveling through the French provinces, especially in the south of the country .

A bust will be inaugurated this Saturday in the city of Pézenas, whose historic center will be the scene of the performance of excerpts from his comedies, or evocations of his life.

There will also be exhibitions on the costumes used by Molière’s company, or on his relationship with music, at the Paris Opera.

Outside of France numerous colloquiums will be held. In the United States, the universities of Yale and New York will pay tribute to him. The prestigious Library of America collection also puts out for sale on January 18 two volumes with all of Molière’s work, in the classic English translation by Richard Wilbury.

In Europe, festivals with works by Molière are held in Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, according to the site moliere2022.org.

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