Le Pédant joué
work by Cyrano de Bergerac
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- In Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac
…of blasphemy, and a comedy, Le Pédant joué (published 1654; “The Pedant Imitated”). As long as classicism was the established taste, Le Pédant joué was despised, but its liveliness has its appeal to modern readers, as it did to Molière, who based two scenes of Les Fourberies de Scapin on…
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