Overview
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.
Cast
- Michel Serrault as M. Jourdain
- Rosy Varte as Mme Jourdain
- Daniel Ceccaldi as Dorante
- Jean-Pierre Darras as Le maître de ballet
- Roger Carel as Le maître de musique
- Henri Virlogeux as Le maître de philosophie
- Jacques Legras as Le maître-tailleur
- Michel Creton as Covielle
- Georges Audoubert as Le maître d'armes
- Annick Blancheteau as Lucile