Project Gutenberg 2004-09-01 Public domain in the USA. 199 Molière 1622 1673 Moliere Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Poquelin de Molière, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, Jean-Baptiste Les précieuses ridicules. English The Pretentious Young Ladies Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Pr%C3%A9cieuses_ridicules Produced by David Moynihan, D Garcia, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Pretentious Young Ladies" by Molière is a comedic play written in the mid-17th century. This one-act comedy provides a satirical take on the affectations and pretentiousness prevalent in Parisian society, particularly among young women who aspire to higher social status and intellectual refinement. The era of the play is characterized by the cultural shifts of the French royal court, highlighting Molière’s departure from Italian theatrical traditions. The plot revolves around two young women, Madelon and Cathos, who are immersed in the pretentious behaviors that come with their pursuit of love and status. Their father, Gorgibus, hopes to arrange marriages for them with two suitors, La Grange and Du Croisy. Instead of valuing their sincere intentions, the young ladies disregard them for their lack of social grace and sophistication, exemplifying their misguided beliefs about romance and courtship. The comedy escalates as the suitors, frustrated by the ladies’ affectation, plot to deceive them by disguising themselves as men of higher status, only to have their identities revealed in humorous twists. As the characters navigate their foolish pretensions, Molière critiques the absurdity of social climbing and the superficiality of the so-called "gallant" behavior of the time. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 79.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en French drama (Comedy) -- Translations into English Molière, 1622-1673 -- Translations into English Précieuses -- Drama Women -- France -- Drama PQ Text One Act Plays Category: Humour Category: Plays/Films/Dramas Category: French Literature 109048 2025-08-03T08:10:22.244369 text/html 108869 2025-01-09T23:33:49.700282 text/html 109266 2025-08-03T08:10:26.679860 application/epub+zip 108994 2025-08-03T08:10:23.883372 application/epub+zip 108994 2025-08-03T08:10:22.835378 application/epub+zip 254066 2025-08-03T08:10:28.683857 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 235982 2025-08-03T08:10:25.984882 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 192919 2022-09-03T12:24:25.519004 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 90043 2025-08-03T08:10:22.005386 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 89813 2013-04-16T21:02:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 89804 2013-04-16T21:02:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 21026 2025-08-03T08:10:28.865846 application/rdf+xml 15523 2025-08-03T08:10:23.326361 image/jpeg 3935 2025-08-03T08:10:23.079365 image/jpeg 35889 2013-04-16T21:04:52 application/octet-stream application/zip 35797 2013-04-16T21:04:52 application/octet-stream application/zip 105690 2025-08-03T08:10:22.253374 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia