Feigned devotion is a powerful mask, and all the more so when it fills the needs of a potentially tyrannical, but frightened pater familias.
Louis XIV himself could not protect Molière fully. Not that impiety went unpunished in Dom Juan, but that devotion is linked to religion and that there were in France genuinely devout persons as well as faux-dévots, persons feigning devotion. The most important group of dévots, or faux-dévots, was the Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement, Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement, a secret society. In 1683, Dom Juan was published in Amsterdam, La Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement As for his Dom Juan, although it was a great success, it closed after 17 performances and was not published until 1682, with passages removed. He had to rewrite Tartuffe twice before the play could be performed (1669). However, his Tartuffe (1664) and his Dom Juan (1665) were attacked by la cabale des dévôts. But libertinage érudit and libertinage are not synonyms. But obtaining the material one requires to write a book is truly difficult.īy virtue of his profession, a playwright and an actor, Molière is associated with libertinage érudit. Wikipedia FR has an entry on the subject and the book is summarized, by GRIHL FR. I read René Pintard’s Le Libertinage érudit dans la première moitié du XVII e siècle when I was writing my thesis, years ago, but I do not own a copy of this book. In fact, I received a comment about libertinage in 17 th century France. Writing about Dom Juanhas been a pleasure. Dom Juan by François Boucher (dessin) & Laurent Cars (gravure) (Google images)
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