Monsieur Jourdain, a wealthy Paris merchant, is determined to become a gentleman. He hires a music master, a dancing master, a fencing master and a professor of philosophy, is fleeced by a smooth count, and refuses his daughter to the young man she loves until a ridiculous Turkish ceremony settles everything.
Molière’s sparkling comedy of social climbing, which delighted Louis XIV and still plays to laughter. Download the free EPUB.