Odyssée - THE KNOWLEDGEABLE WOMEN

A family is torn apart over a proposed marriage. On one side, the mother Philaminte, her sister-in-law Bélise and her daughter Armande. All three are infatuated with art and science, and would like to see Henriette, the youngest of the family, marry the poet Trissotin. On the other hand, father Chrysale and his brother Ariste, good bourgeois men concerned with their own interests, want Henriette to marry Clitandre, a young aristocrat well introduced at Court. Behind this comedy of marriage, two a priori irreconcilable conceptions of life are revealed and clash. For a long time, it was thought that in Les Femmes savantes, Molière was wickedly mocking women's desire for emancipation, with a very misogynistic brutality.