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When did Molière's first album release?

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Molière's first album Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur released on May 12, 1664.


Considered one of the great comic playwrights in Western history, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin a.k.a. Molière (1622-1673) was born to a prosperous bourgeois family in Paris and founded his own theater company at age 21 with proceeds from the court title that his father had purchased. He likely changed his name to spare his family the shame of having... Read More
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