ridicules
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This serio-comic delineation of dictatorship on the rampage deserves a special niche in your Hall of Famous Ridicules.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
He was born in Paris in 1655, three years before Molière brought his company from the provinces to the Hôtel de Bourbon, and opened the new theatre with the "Précieuses Ridicules."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various
To Mr Mansion also is due the credit for the translation of the "Les Souhaits Ridicules" and for the adaptation of "Peau d'Asne."
From The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Clarke, Harry
In 1659 Molière took the town by storm with his Précieuses Ridicules, a satire in one act on the exaggerations of the Hôtel de Rambouillet.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter
