The Bourgeois Gentleman Author:Moliere Classic satire, one of the best by France?s greatest comedic playwright, pokes fun at the sham and hypocrisy of 17th-century French society. A wealthy tradesman, Monsieur Jourdain, yearns to become a gentleman in order to win the hand of a marchioness?disregarding the inconvenient fact that he is already married?but only succeeds in making a foo... more »l of himself.« less