Splendid Lovers

the splendid Lovers is a Comedy-ballet of Molière, composed and represented at the time of the Carnaval of February 1670, during named festivities royal Divertissement .

Behind recreation of intrigue sentimental and romantic - two rival princes dispute a young princess who loves a soldier of fortune, without nobility but not without glory, which the safe one of a wild wild boar and is thus authorized to marry that he likes -, Molière made the lawsuit of the Astrologie in particular thanks to the character of Anaxarque, astrologer charlatan.

“This execution, writing G. Couton, gave a lesson of reason at a court and a civilization which had good need for it. ”

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