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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 100 — I. OF WORKS OF THE MIND.

Henri Van Laun translation

Molière often put peasants on the stage; but he never made of them, nor of intoxicated persons, his principal characters: the “sick person” is said to be a hit at Argan in Molièreʼs Le Malade imaginaire. See also page 21, § 38.

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