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Tartuffe the play
Tartuffe : Double-dealing in the Era of the Sun King Tartuffe was written in the era of Louis XIV , the Sun King , a time when France was arguably the greatest nation in the Western world and a time when the intellectual and aesthetic development of society was in a stage of development called the Baroque It was a time of excess and a time of grandeur . It was not a time for small things - for small gestures , for small oeuvres . The great King himself reigned for years and years , having begun as an inexperienced
br boy beneath the hand of his mother , Anne of Austria , and the Cardinal Mazarin , and grew over time to a stature that led him to say l ' Etat c 'est moi ' - I AM the State . He built Versailles , waged many wars had numerous mistresses and sons and daughters both natural and illegitimate , and ruled so long that he saw his grandchildren die
The state that existed under such leadership was characterized to some extent by polarized opinion . There was worldliness - there had to be considering that it was a time when marriages among the nobility were arranged for financial and political reasons , when sinecures were bought and sold , the same principle of purchase being true for churchmen , civil servants or soldiers , and when fortunes depended on the favour curried at court from the king and the women close to him . It would take a large amount of cynicism , similar to that which informed Pascal 's wager...
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