\b0 It was not until 1669, after five years of exhausting struggle against the religious fanaticism o
f some members of court and the Catholic hierarchy, that MoliΦre was able to put on his play \i Tartuffe ou l'imposteur\i0 (\i Tartuffe or the Imposter\i0 ). His enemies could not forgive him for his portrayal of a hypocrite ready to defraud his protect
or and strip him of his property while lusting after his wife and obtaining his daughter in marriage. MoliΦre used this plot denouncing hypocrisy and the unrelenting malice of religious frauds to construct a glittering intrigue that was able to draw on t
he most beautiful style of classical writing to emerge in the seventeenth century.\par
