L’École des femmes
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L’École des femmes is a 1662 comedic play by Molière that satirizes male jealousy and the social constraints placed on women in 17th-century French society.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| L’École des femmes canonical | 2 |
| The School for Wives | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T987114 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: L’École des femmes Context triple: [Molière, notableWork, L’École des femmes]
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Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
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B.
Julie, or the New Heloise
Julie, or the New Heloise is an epistolary novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that explores themes of love, virtue, and social convention through the tragic relationship between a noblewoman and her tutor.
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C.
Jacques le fataliste et son maître
Jacques le fataliste et son maître is an 18th-century philosophical novel by Denis Diderot that playfully explores fate, free will, and storytelling through the conversations and adventures of a servant and his master.
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D.
Madeleine in the Bois d’Amour
Madeleine in the Bois d’Amour is a Post-Impressionist painting by Émile Bernard that depicts a contemplative female figure in a wooded landscape, reflecting the artist’s Symbolist and Cloisonnist style.
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E.
Le Père Goriot
Le Père Goriot is a classic 1835 realist novel by Honoré de Balzac that portrays the intertwined lives of Parisian society, focusing on themes of ambition, social climbing, and paternal sacrifice.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: L’École des femmes Target entity description: L’École des femmes is a 1662 comedic play by Molière that satirizes male jealousy and the social constraints placed on women in 17th-century French society.
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A.
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes is a major novel in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine that explores the intertwined worlds of Parisian high society, crime, and prostitution in the early 19th century.
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B.
Julie, or the New Heloise
Julie, or the New Heloise is an epistolary novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that explores themes of love, virtue, and social convention through the tragic relationship between a noblewoman and her tutor.
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C.
Barré Lyndon
Barré Lyndon was a British playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting works for film, including contributing to the screenplay of the Academy Award–winning drama "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952).
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D.
Jacques le fataliste et son maître
Jacques le fataliste et son maître is an 18th-century philosophical novel by Denis Diderot that playfully explores fate, free will, and storytelling through the conversations and adventures of a servant and his master.
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E.
Madeleine in the Bois d’Amour
Madeleine in the Bois d’Amour is a Post-Impressionist painting by Émile Bernard that depicts a contemplative female figure in a wooded landscape, reflecting the artist’s Symbolist and Cloisonnist style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French play
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play ⓘ stage comedy ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
French royal court
ⓘ
surface form:
Louis XIV’s court
|
| author | Molière ⓘ |
| centralFemaleCharacter | Agnès ⓘ |
| character |
Agnès
ⓘ
Alain ⓘ Arnolphe ⓘ Chrysalde ⓘ Georgette ⓘ Horace ⓘ |
| controversy | provoked debates about morality and decency at the time of its premiere ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| dateWritten | 1662 ⓘ |
| dramaticForm | comedy in five acts in verse ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1663 ⓘ |
| firstPublisher | Jean Ribou ⓘ |
| followedBy | La Critique de l’École des femmes ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| hasSequel | La Critique de l’École des femmes ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
control and surveillance
ⓘ
education of women ⓘ male jealousy ⓘ marriage ⓘ patriarchy ⓘ social constraints on women ⓘ |
| meter | alexandrine verse ⓘ |
| movement | classical French comedy ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
one of Molière’s first major successes at court
ⓘ
sparked the so-called "querelle de L’École des femmes" ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| period | 17th-century French theatre ⓘ |
| placeOfPremiere | Paris ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Arnolphe raises Agnès in seclusion to make her an ignorant and obedient wife, but she falls in love with Horace, undermining his plans. ⓘ |
| premieredAt | Théâtre du Palais-Royal ⓘ |
| protagonist | Arnolphe ⓘ |
| satirizes |
male fear of being cuckolded
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misogynistic attitudes toward women ⓘ social norms of 17th-century French society ⓘ |
| setting | a French town in the 17th century ⓘ |
| structure | five acts ⓘ |
| theatreCompany |
troupe of the Duke of Orléans
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surface form:
Troupe de Monsieur, frère unique du Roi
|
| titleTranslation |
L’École des femmes
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The School for Wives
|
| writtenInVerse | yes ⓘ |
| yearOfPremiere | 1662 ⓘ |
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Referenced by (3)
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this entity surface form:
The School for Wives