MOLE. The Women of Science. And sells itself... - Lot 16 - Osenat

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MOLE. The Women of Science. And sells itself... - Lot 16 - Osenat
MOLE. The Women of Science. And sells itself for the sake of autumnality. In Paris, at the Palais, and at Pierre Promé's, 1673. In-12, (4)-92 pp., red morocco, cloisonné and floral ribbed spine, triple gilt fillet framing the dishes, threaded cups, inner frame of gilt lace, gilt edges (E. & A. Maylander). ORIGINAL EDITION, second edition, with a particularly careful printing work. Molière was unable to employ his usual bookseller Jean Ribou, who was under a temporary ban on selling books under his name or any other: he therefore turned to the excellent printer Claude Blageart and the obscure bookseller Pierre Promé. ONE OF THE WORKS WHERE THE GENIE OF MOLIÈRE BRILLES THE MOST, this play in verse fully develops a subject barely touched upon in La Critique de l'École des femmes and tackled at the same time by Boileau, namely the satire of the authors. Molière took the opportunity to broach, through the character of Trissotin, the Abbé Cotin who had personally scratched him in his Satire des satires directed against Boileau. He added the satire of the "learned woman", untimely and admiring of pedants, the antithesis of the "gallant woman" of worldly circles, the latter cultivated but discreet - an opposition defined by the Scudéry family in their Artamenes or the Grand Cyrus. For this salon comedy, Molière took up Tartuffe's scheme, that of the impostor seeking to marry out of interest a young girl from a rich family. He began writing Les Femmes savantes after the Easter break in 1669, but a series of royal commissions and obligations delayed his writing, which was completed in the autumn of 1670, and then its premiere on 11 March 1672 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (where Molière played the role of Chrysale), and also its printing, which was completed on 10 December 1672, although the privilege had been granted on 31 December 1670. The play met with lasting public success, in the theatre (the takings were important), in the Salons (readings at th
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