MACMILLAN'S SERIES

OF

FOREIGN SCHOOL CLASSICS

EDITED BY

G. EUGENE FASNACHT

Sometime Assistant-Master at Westminster School;
Author of 'The Synthetic French Grammar,'

The Progressive French and German Courses,'
The Organic Method of Studying Languages,' &c.

Comédie en Cinq Actes

PAR

J. B. POQUELIN DE MOLIÈRE

(1666)

WITH

A LIFE OF MOLIÈRE,

APPRECIATION OF THE PLAY, ARGUMENTS, NOTES ON
GRAMMAR, ARCHAISMS, ETC., SYSTEMATICALLY ARRANGED

BY

G. EUGÈNE FASNACHT

London

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1905

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First Edition 1882 Second Edition 1890. Reprinted 1893, 1898, 1905