Would-Be Gentleman

Plot Summary

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.

Top Cast

Michel Serrault M. Jourdain

Rosy Varte Mme Jourdain

Daniel Ceccaldi Dorante

Jean-Pierre Darras Le maître de ballet

Roger Carel Le maître de musique