Love is always young and happy

David Coward

  • Molière: A Theatrical Life by Virginia Scott
    Cambridge, 333 pp, £35.00, October 2000, ISBN 0 521 78281 3

One day in about 1820, so the story goes, a peasant appeared at the Bibliothèque Nationale with a cart drawn by a mule. In the cart, he said, were ‘tous les papiers de Molière’ and they were for sale. But the Library was closed and the concierge told him to come back another day. He never did and ‘Molière’s papers’ were doubtless offloaded as wrapping for fish and onions for the grocers of Paris.

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