"L'Avare de Molière (Extrait Acte IV, scène 7)" has been shared to the blog from the French reading exercises section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills.
Did you know that French people call their own language “la langue de Molière”? The most famous French playwright of all time, 17th-century Molière wrote about 30 comedies that are still taught and played all around the world. In “L’Avare” (“The Miser”), we follow the wealthy and incredibly greedy Harpagon as he tries to marry his daughter, all the while obsessed with protecting a casket full of gold. The excerpt below takes place after that casket has gone missing, and “poor” Harpagon expresses his desperation in a hilariously grandiose monologue. Discover (literally) the intricacies of la langue de Molière in one of its most iconic monologues, with the help of our own bilingual transcript!
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For over ten years now, Céline has been teaching French and Italian to students of all ages and abilities in the UK. This French native speaker comes from Brittany, and likes crafts, Breton dance (of course!) and Breton music which she actually played for four years. She also has a fondness for European cinema and British History.
Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since. She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!