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| name = Le Méchant
| image = MechantScene.png
| image_size =
| image_alt =
| caption = Act V, Scene IX
| writer = Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
| characters = Сléon, the titular villain
Сhloé
Valère, Сhloé's lover
Florise, Сhloé's mother
Géronte, Florise's brother
Ariste, Géronte's friend
Lisette, lady's maid
Frontin, Сléon's manservant
A servant
| setting =
| premiere = {{Start date|1747|04|15}}[1]
| place = Comédie-Française
| orig_lang = French
| subject =
| genre = comedy
}}Le Méchant (French: The Villain) is a 1747 play by Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset. It is considered the best verse comedy of the eighteenth-century French stage.[2]

Like Tartuffe[3] (and Destouches's Ingrat and Médisant),[4] the title character, Сléon, schemes to gain his provincial host's money and marry his female relatives - here, Géronte's sister and niece rather than his daughter. Сléon, who thinks the height of pleasure is to be both feared and desired, persuades Valère not to marry Сhloé and promises to marry Florise, but is eventually exposed by the wise Ariste and the clever Lisette, who enlist his manservant Frontin in support of their cause.[5]

Madame de Pompadour, having promised Gresset that she would put on the play at her theatre, did so on February 6, 1748.[6] She played Lisette, while the Duc de Chartres played Géronte and the Duc de Nivernais played Valère.[1][6]

Several lines in Les Liaisons dangereuses refer or allude to Le Méchant: Madame de Merteuil quotes Cléon's "Les sots sont ici-bas pour nos menus plaisirs" (II.I) in letter 63, citing the play, and Valmont alludes to the same character's "Ma foi, quand je parcours tout ce qui le compose [le monde]/Je ne trouve que nous qui valions quelque chose" (II.III) in letter 100, when he says "En vérité, plus je vais, et plus je suis tenté de croire qu'il n'y a que vous et moi dans le monde, qui valions quelque chose."[7] In 1792, Elizabeth Inchbald adapted the play into the farce Young Men and Old Women.[8]

External links

  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=u2sGAAAAQAAJ French text of the play at Google Books]

References

1. ^{{Cite book |last=Lever |first=Evelyne |last2=Temerson |first2=Catherine |title=Madame de Pompadour: A Life |pages=98–99 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9VXhYOEs5LMC&pg=PA98 |year=2003 |publisher=Macmillan}}
2. ^{{Cite encyclopedia |last=Delamarre |first=Louis |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07029a.htm |encyclopedia=The Catholic Encyclopedia |publisher=Robert Appleton Company |year=1910 |title=Jean Baptiste Gresset}}
3. ^{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WOAHl9i-n0EC&pg=PA408 |page=408 |title=McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of world drama, Volume 1 |year=1984}}
4. ^{{Cite book |title=Philippe Néricault Destouches: l'homme et l'oeuvre |first=János |last=Hankiss |year=1981 |publisher=Slatkine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kxu0gxqSKlcC}}
5. ^{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?ei=bNwrTZfYGsG78gbZrNGNCg&ct=result&id=ouooAAAAYAAJ |title=Life and letters in France, volume 2 |pages=89–98 |chapter=Gresset (1709-1777) |publisher=Nelson |year=1965 |first=Richard |last=Fargher}}
6. ^{{Cite book |title=La cour de Louis XV |first=Imbert de |last=Saint-Amand |page=152 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TgoZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA152 |year=1886 |publisher=E. Dentu}}
7. ^{{Cite book |last=Jacot Grapa |first=Caroline |page=167 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7spcAAAAMAAJ |year=1997 |publisher=Gallimard |title="Les liaisons dangereuses" de Choderlos de Laclos}}
8. ^{{Cite book |editor-first=Catherine B. |editor-last=Burroughs |title=Women in British romantic theatre: drama, performance, and society, 1790-1840 |year=2000 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |chapter=Suicide and translation: Inchbald and Plumptre |last=Moody |first=Jane |page=262 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e1k3cb2GNxYC&pg=PA262}}
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