Molière understood profoundly what makes us noble, pathetic, outrageous and funny, and in his splendid comedies satirized human folly to perfection. One of the best of his plays – and one of the greatest of all comedies – is The Misanthrope , first performed in 1666, when the King of France himself had assumed patronag Sonlight resource: https://www.sonlight.com/products/the-misanthrope-and-tartuffe