Molière Sagnier. 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
Jean-Baptiste Massip the literary society founded in Montauban by Le Franc de Pompignan. His plays and their presentations on CÉSAR Jean-Baptiste Massip Jean-Baptiste Massip (1676 in Montauban – 1751 Montauban) was an 18th-century French lawyer, poet, playwright and librettist. After completing his studies, Massip obtained a law degree and devoted himself to the bar. A lawyer by the Parlement, Massip wrote a large number of elegant and delicate French and Gascon songs before heading to Paris where he was able to conciliate the esteem of the chancelier de Pontchartrain who appointed him his gentleman, gave him a position of royal censor, with