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Les Femmes Savantes

Les Femmes Savantes

Les Femmes savantes is a comedy by Molière in five acts, written in verse. A satire on academic pretension, female education, and préciosité , it was one of his most popular comedies. It premiered at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal on 11 March 1672.


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“A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.”

Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant.
Act IV, sc. iii
Les Femmes Savantes (1672)

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“Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.”

La grammaire qui sait régenter jusqu'aux rois.
Act II, sc. vi. An apparent reference to Sigismund I, at the Council of Constance, 1414, said to a prelate who had objected to his Majesty's grammar, "Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam" (I am the Roman emperor, and am above grammar).
Les Femmes Savantes (1672)

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“It is seasoned throughout with Attic salt.”

Il est de sel attique assaisonné partout.
Act III, sc. ii
Les Femmes Savantes (1672)

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