himself indicated to him the Marquis of Soyecour.

"There's one you have forgotten," he said.
Twenty-four hours later, the bore of a huntsman, with all his jargon of venery, had a place forever amongst the _Facheux_ of Moliere.

The _Ecole des Femmes,_ the _Impromptu de Versailles,_ the _Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes,_ began the bellicose period in the great comic poet's life.
Accused of impiety, attacked in the honor of his private life, Moliere, returning insult for insult, delivered over those amongst his enemies who offered a butt for ridicule to the derision of the court and of posterity.

The _Festin de Pierre_ and the signal punishment of the libertine (free-thinker) were intended to clear the author from the reproach of impiety; _la Princesse d'Elide_ and _l'Amour medecin_ were but charming interludes in the great struggle henceforth instituted between reality and appearance.

In 1666, Moliere produced _le Misanthrope,_ a frank and noble spirit's sublime invective against the frivolity, perfidious and showy semblances of court.