Molière's Les femmes savantes.
Contributors: Fortier, Alcée, 1856-1914, ed.
Series: Heath's modern language series
Publisher: D.C. Heath & co.
Published: 1896
Language: fre
Number of pages: 125
Other titles: Les femmes savantes.
Description: Pseudo-intellectualism is all the fashion, and Chrysale is a man under siege. Philaminte, his wife, is enthralled by the pedantic poet Trissotin and is determined to marry their youngest daughter, Henriette, to him in spite of her husband's opposition and Henriette's protests that she be allowed to marry the sensible Clitandre. In the end, Henriette is united with her beloved, but not before Trissotin abandons his suit-just when it appears that the family's fortunes have been lost through Philaminte's spendthrift highbrow pursuits.