Le Philinte de Molière

play by Fabre d’Eglantine

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In Philippe Fabre d’Églantine
…many comedies, the most celebrated—Le Philinte de Molière (1790), a sequel to Molière’s Misanthrope—in which the major characters are drawn as a politically dangerous aristocrat and a virtuous Republican. His best-known work is the song “Il pleut, il pleut, bergère” (“It’s raining, it’s raining, shepherdess”), a song which French…
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