| Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... M (Properly, JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN, the name by which he became known to fame having been assumed when he went on the stage, to avoid embarrassing his family French comic poet; b. at Paris , 15 Jan., 1622; d. there 17 Feb., 1673. He was the son a Paris furniture dealer who was also a valet-de-chambre to the king, and succeeded his father in the latter of these two capacities. After making his studies with the Jesuits Clermont , he seems to have studied law . It is not known, however, if he ever took his licentiate. The stage very soon attracted him and absorbed him. At twenty-one he entered the theatrical musicians at the cost of one livre per day, and a dancer, who was to receive thirty-five sols per day and five sols debt . He was imprisoned in the , but released on his own recognizances. In the course of the subsequent wanderings through different parts of France Volant". Afterwards, about 1653 or 1655, he staged, at Lyons , "L'Etourdi". In this he began to use the language of fine comedy which Corneille had created Parisian public; we find it in | |
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