Course 10: Molière, France, and the Aristocratic Age

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Marguerite de Navarre
Selections from The Heptaméron (1558) ~

René Descartes
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy (1637) ~

Jean de La Fontaine
Selections from Fables (1668) ~

Molière
The School for Wives (1662) ~
Tartuffe (1664) ~
The Misanthrope (1666) ~

Jean Racine
Phèdre (1677) ~

Voltaire
Candide (1759) ~