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 d'Huez were all destroyed in 1792, during the French Revolution. Huez was one of the main artists whose work was included in the collection of the Comédie-Française at the end of the 18th century. Others were Jean-Joseph Foucou, Simon-Louis Boizot, Augustin Pajou and Pierre-François Berruer. Huez became a teacher himself. One of his pupils was Jean-Louis Couasnon (1747–1802). Huez's teacher, Jean-Baptiste II Lemoyne (1704–1778), started a group "Poetry crying on the bust of Mr. Crebillon" to commemorate the playwright Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, but did not complete it. It was moved to the antiques room in the Louvre in 1778, where