The Middle Class Gentleman
The Middle Class Gentleman (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme)
by Moliere
Translated by Philip Dwight Jones
Comedy-Ballet presented at Chambord, for the entertainment of the
King, in the month of October 1670, and to the public in Paris for
the first time at the Palais-Royal Theater 23 November 1670
The Cast
Monsieur Jourdain, bourgeois.
Madame Jourdain, his wife.
Lucile, their daughter.
Nicole, maid.
Cleonte, suitor of Lucile.
Covielle, Cleonte's valet.
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