Molière Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière (; ; 15 January 162217 February 1673), 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 includes comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today. His influence is such that the French language itself is often referred to as the "language of Molière". Born into a prosperous family and having studied at
Barthélémy-Jean-Baptiste Sanadon Barthélémy-Jean-Baptiste Sanadon Bartholomew John the Baptist Sanadon, better known by the name of Jean-Baptiste Sanadon was a constitutional Catholic Bishop and a member of the revolutionary Convention. He was born in February 1729 in Evreux ( Eure ) and died on 9 February 1796 in Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques). Sanadon entered the Benedictine order and he was principal of the college of Pau, having been a professor of history and literature. In 1785, Sanadon published an essay on the nobility of the Basques, which he extracted from manuscripts of papers knight Jean Philippe de Bela. He was attracted to the ideas of