ridicules
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The piece was Italian Composer Felice Lattuada's pleasant if unimportant version of Moliere's Precicuses Ridicules, presented as curtain-raiser to Modeste Moussorgsky's boorish peasant farce, The Fair at Sorochintzy, whose premiere was given the fortnight before.
From Time Magazine Archive
This serio-comic delineation of dictatorship on the rampage deserves a special niche in your Hall of Famous Ridicules.
From Time Magazine Archive
From this reading had sprung the idea of making Cyrano the central figure of a drama laid in the city of Richelieu, d’Artagnan, and the Précieuses Ridicules, a seventeenth-century Paris of love and duelling.
From The Ways of Men by Gregory, Eliot
Presently, when, in the Précieuses Ridicules, Molière laughed at them, the shock was too great, they disintegrated.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
Molière, 30, 90; plays of, 85-87; Femmes Savantes, and Précieuses Ridicules of, 172; L'École des Femmes of, 412.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine
