Molière

Molière was born on Jan 15, 1622 in Kingdom of France [now France]. Molière's big-screen debut came with Tartuffe directed by F.W. Murnau in 1925. Molière is known for Tartuffe, or The Impostor directed by Bill Alexander, Lesley Sharp stars as Mariane and Sylvia Coleridge as Mme Pernelle. The upcoming new movie Molière plays is Dom Juan & Sganarelle which will be released on May 05, 2016.

Born between January 13 and January 15 of the year 1622, from a 25yo tapestry-maker, Jean Poguelin (who worked for the King of France from 1631), and a 20yo woman, Marie Cresé, in Paris, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin lost his mother when he was 10. From 1638 to 1640, he studied in the Jesuit college of Clermont, then started a brief lawyer career and pursued his father's work under Louis XIII, especially in Narbonne, until the King's death in 1643, when Jean-Baptiste co-founded L'Illustre Théâtre, installed at the jeu de paume des Métayers (faubourg Saint-Germain, Paris). He chose his nom-de-plume Molière in 1644 but his company had some financial difficulties due to a lack of success: Molière was imprisoned twice in 1645 for debts. The troupe moved several times in different parts of France (Lyon, Grenoble, Dijon, Narbonne...) and they became the troupe of the Prince de Conti in 1653 (in Pézenas, Languedoc).