The learned women

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Data
Title: The learned women
Original title: Les Femmes savantes
Genus: comedy
Original language: French
Author: Molière
Publishing year: 1672
Premiere: March 11, 1672
Place of premiere: Palais Royal, Paris
Place and time of the action: Paris in the 17th century
people
  • Chrysale , good citizen
  • Philaminte , his wife
  • Armande , Henriette, their children
  • Ariste , Chrysale's brother
  • Bélise , Chrysale's sister
  • Clitandre , lover of Henriette
  • Trissotin , esthete
  • Vadius , scholar
  • u. a.

The learned women (original title: Les Femmes savantes ) is a comedy by the French poet Molière . The satirical comedy premiered on the stage of the Palais Royal in Paris in 1672 .

action

Clitandre, a distinguished young man, is in love with Henriette, a daughter from a good family. Her father Chrysale, who would have agreed with Clitandre, is once again unable to assert himself against his wife Philaminte. She, Chrysale's sister Bélise and her other daughter Armande are only interested in literature and philosophy and look with pity on all the uneducated, such as B. Chrysale, Henriette and Clitandre. Armande also tries to thwart Henriette's connection with Clitandre, even if she had turned him down when he was previously interested in her.

There was an open conflict when Philaminte quit the cook Martine because of her "ignorance". The couple quarrel about it. Philaminte promises her daughter Henriette to the poet Trissotin (about: Dreimaldümmling), who is valued by her, a corruption of the preacher and poet Charles Cotin , a contemporary of Molière (1602-1684).

Ariste, Henriette's uncle, finally saves his niece's happiness. In front of the notary, who has already been appointed to draw up the marriage contract, he presents two fake letters that prove the family's financial ruin. Trissotin then withdraws his application on the grounds that Henriette does not love him. After Philaminte realizes that the esthete is just a hypocrite who was only attracted by the family's money, she generously agrees to her daughter's marriage to Clitandre.

In the comical secondary character of Vadius, Molière caricatured the somewhat older writer and scholar Gilles Ménage .