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2022-01-15 14:41 France marks 400 years of Moliere, France's most successful playwright
He's known as the father of French theatre, but the influence of Molière goes well beyond France. His impact is still felt today all over the world. To mark the 400th anniversary of the famed playwright's birth, we speak to Georges Forestier, professor at the Sorbonne and a specialist in the works of Molière. We also take you on a tour of Molière's Paris.
At the Lycée Montaigne in Paris, students are re-enacting excerpts from his plays in a show highlighting violence against women, and Molière's modernity.
In the Charleville-Mézières Western Cemetery, the guard Bernard Colin watches over the French poet Arthur Rimbaud's grave and conscientiously picks up his "letters" which continue to arrive in a vintage yellow letterbox.
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