Daily Archive: January 15, 2011

Jan 15

January 15: Molière

Portrait of Molière by Nicolas Mignard

Don Juan was described by a contemporary as “a school of Atheism.” Tartuffe so stirred up the clergy that some clerics wanted the playwright burned as a heretic! Instead, he was excommunicated.

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