PARIS'S 'HOUSE OF MOLIÈRE' WISHES HAPPY 400TH BIRTHDAY TO FRENCH THEATRE LEGEND
(Laura Cappelle's article appeared in the Guardian, 1/10; Gift for improvisation … painting of Molière reading from Tartuffe at the home of Ninon de L'Enclos. Photograph: Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy.) The Comédie-Française is celebrating the 17th-century dramatist by recreating Tartuffe, the play that outraged the Catholic church and almost ended his career French theatre is gearing […]