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    The Countess of Escarbagnas
    The Countess of Escarbagnas
    The Countess of Escarbagnas
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    The Countess of Escarbagnas

    By Molière and Charles Heron Wall

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    Release dateJan 1, 2004
    The Countess of Escarbagnas
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    Molière

    Molière was a French playwright, actor, and poet. Widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature, his extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more.

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      The Countess of Escarbagnas - Molière

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Countess of Escarbagnas, by Molière, Translated by Charles Heron Wall

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      Title: The Countess of Escarbagnas

      Author: Molière

      This file was first posted on May 2, 2003 [eBook #7451]

      Most recently updated: October 29, 2008

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COUNTESS OF ESCARBAGNAS***

      E-text prepared by Delphine Lettau

      THE COUNTESS OF ESCARBAGNAS.

      (LA COMTESSE D'ESCARBAGNAS.)

      BY

      MOLIÈRE

      TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE.

      WITH SHORT INTRODUCTIONS AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.

      BY

      CHARLES HERON WALL

      'La Comtesse d'Escarbagnas' was acted before the Court at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, on December 2, 1671, and in the theatre of the Palais Royal on July 8, 1672. It was never printed during Molière's lifetime, but for the first time only in 1682. It gives us a good picture of the provincial thoughts, manners, and habits of those days.

      PERSONS REPRESENTED.

      THE COUNTESS OF ESCARBAGNAS.

      SCENE I.—JULIA, THE VISCOUNT.

      Visc. What! you are here already?

      Ju. Yes, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself, Cléante; it is not right for a lover to be the last to come to the rendezvous.

      Visc. I should have been here long ago if there were no importunate people in the world. I was stopped on my way by an old bore of rank, who asked me news of the court, merely to be able himself to detail to me the most absurd things that can well be imagined about it. You know that those great newsmongers are the curse of provincial towns, and that they have no greater anxiety than to spread, everywhere abroad all the tittle-tattle they pick up. This one showed me, to begin with, two large sheets of paper full to the very brim with the greatest imaginable amount of rubbish, which, he says, comes from the safest quarters. Then, as if it were a wonderful thing, he read full length and with great mystery all the stupid jokes in the Dutch Gazette, which he takes for gospel.¹ He thinks that France is being brought to ruin

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