num_pages: 94
description: Classic satire, one of the best by France’s greatest comedic playwright, pokes fun at the sham and hypocrisy of 17th-century French society. A wealthy tradesman, Monsieur Jourdain, yearns to become a gentleman in order to win the hand of a marchioness—disregarding the inconvenient fact that he is already married—but only succeeds in making a fool of himself.
language: English
title: The Bourgeois Gentleman
titlecomplete: The Bourgeois Gentleman
genres: Classics, Theatre, Drama, France, Plays, Humor, School, 17th Century, French Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 12227
places: France
publisher: Dover Publications