โœŒ๐Ÿคฃ”The Miserโ€™s Market, or The Comedy of Inflation” “Le Marchรฉ du Ladre, ou La Comรฉdie de lโ€™Inflation” by/deMoliรจre alias Jean-Baptiste Poquelin sort of/en quelque sorte

English: “The Comedy of Inflation: Aristocrats trade worthless fortunes while the common people struggle for bread.”
French: “La Comรฉdie de lโ€™Inflation : Les aristocrates รฉchangent des fortunes illusoires tandis que le peuple lutte pour du pain.”

A Comedic Farce in Three Acts

Act I: The Golden Illusion

In the grand city of Argentville, where men in powdered wigs and silk stockings traded fortunes with a flick of the wrist, there lived a most distinguished financier, Monsieur Harpagon de la Bourse. A man of exquisite taste and insatiable greed, he had made his fortune whispering sweet nothings to the market and watching it swoon.

One evening, while counting his coins with the affection of a lover, his loyal but exasperated clerk, Jacques, interrupted.

โ€œMaster, the price of wheat has doubled, and the people grumble!โ€

โ€œBah!โ€ scoffed Harpagon, adjusting his brocade waistcoat. โ€œLet them grumble! A rising tide lifts all shipsโ€”though, of course, some sail first-class, while others must swim.โ€

Jacques wrung his hands. โ€œBut sire, they say inflation has taken hold of the land!โ€

Harpagon laughed. โ€œInflation? A trifle! A delightful dance of numbers! It merely means that my wealth is ever so much greater when measured in the paltry coins of the common man!โ€

Act II: The Bubble Bursts

News soon spread through the salons and stock exchanges that money had become as abundant as flattery in a nobleโ€™s court. Bankers, merchants, and charlatans alike rushed to inflate their fortunes, stuffing their pockets with promises of wealth that shimmered like a mirage in the desert.

The noble Marquis de Credit, a dandy whose investments were as grand as his periwig, approached Harpagon.

โ€œDear friend,โ€ the Marquis purred, โ€œhave you not heard? Paper is the new gold! The kingโ€™s ministers print it in such quantities that soon we shall all be richer than Croesus!โ€

โ€œBut what of value?โ€ Harpagon asked.

โ€œValue? What a quaint notion! All that matters is speculation!โ€

And so it was that fortunes ballooned like a soufflรฉโ€”until, of course, it collapsed under its own foolish weight.

Act III: The Price of Foolishness

At last, the reckoning came. Prices soared beyond reason, and the common folk, their purses emptied and their bellies unfilled, cried out for relief.

Harpagon, once the wealthiest man in Argentville, now found that his mountain of coins bought him no more than a loaf of bread.

Jacques sighed. โ€œMaster, what shall we do?โ€

Harpagon, at last humbled, sighed dramatically. โ€œAh, Jacques, my folly was thinking that numbers alone could feed me! I have spent my life worshiping gold, only to find that gold, like flattery, cannot be eaten.โ€

And so, with a bow to the audience, Harpagon and his fellow financiers learned that the comedy of inflation was always written at the expense of those who could afford it least.

Moral of the Play: When fortunes are built on illusions, it is always the common man who pays the price.

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known as Moliรจre (1622โ€“1673), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the history of French literature. Born in Paris to a wealthy family, he initially studied law but soon abandoned it for the theater, founding the theater company Illustre Thรฉรขtre.

Moliรจre became famous for his sharp comedies that satirized the hypocrisy, vanity, and absurdities of 17th-century French society. His plays, including Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, The Imaginary Invalid, and The Miser, blended wit, social critique, and farce, often drawing the ire of powerful figures, including the Catholic Church.

With the patronage of King Louis XIV, Moliรจreโ€™s troupe became the official royal theater company. However, his works frequently sparked controversy for mocking religious hypocrisy and aristocratic pretensions. He continued acting until his final daysโ€”ironically collapsing on stage while performing The Imaginary Invalid and dying shortly thereafter in 1673.

His legacy endures as a master of comedy, satire, and theatrical innovation, influencing playwrights and comedians for centuries.

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Le Marchรฉ du Ladre, ou La Comรฉdie de lโ€™Inflation

Une farce en trois actes


Acte I : Lโ€™illusion dorรฉe

Dans la grande ville dโ€™Argentville, oรน les hommes en perruques poudrรฉes et en bas de soie รฉchangeaient des fortunes dโ€™un simple geste, vivait un financier des plus distinguรฉs, Monsieur Harpagon de la Bourse. Homme de goรปt exquis et dโ€™une avarice insatiable, il avait bรขti sa fortune en susurrant des mots doux au marchรฉ et en le voyant sโ€™รฉvanouir de plaisir.

Un soir, alors quโ€™il comptait ses piรจces avec lโ€™affection dโ€™un amant, son fidรจle mais exaspรฉrรฉ clerc, Jacques, lโ€™interrompit.

ยซ Maรฎtre, le prix du blรฉ a doublรฉ, et le peuple gronde ! ยป

ยซ Bah ! ยป sโ€™exclama Harpagon, en ajustant son gilet de brocart. ยซ Quโ€™il gronde ! Une mer montante porte tous les naviresโ€ฆ bien que, bien sรปr, certains voyagent en premiรจre classe tandis que dโ€™autres doivent nager. ยป

Jacques se tordit les mains. ยซ Mais, sire, on dit que lโ€™inflation a pris le pays ! ยป

Harpagon rit. ยซ Lโ€™inflation ? Une broutille ! Une dรฉlicieuse danse de chiffres ! Cela signifie simplement que ma richesse est dโ€™autant plus grande lorsquโ€™elle est mesurรฉe en misรฉrables sous du commun des mortels ! ยป


Acte II : Lโ€™รฉclatement de la bulle

La nouvelle se rรฉpandit bientรดt dans les salons et les bourses : lโ€™argent coulait ร  flots, aussi abondant que les flatteries ร  la cour dโ€™un noble. Banquiers, marchands et charlatans se prรฉcipitรจrent pour gonfler leur fortune, bourrant leurs poches de promesses de richesses aussi brillantes quโ€™un mirage dans le dรฉsert.

Le noble Marquis de Crรฉdit, un dandy dont les investissements รฉtaient aussi extravagants que sa perruque, aborda Harpagon.

ยซ Mon cher ami, ยป ronronna le Marquis, ยซ nโ€™avez-vous pas entendu ? Le papier est le nouvel or ! Les ministres du roi en impriment tant que bientรดt nous serons tous plus riches que Crรฉsus ! ยป

ยซ Mais quโ€™en est-il de la valeur ? ยป demanda Harpagon.

ยซ La valeur ? Quelle idรฉe archaรฏque ! Tout ce qui compte, cโ€™est la spรฉculation ! ยป

Et ainsi, les fortunes gonflรจrent comme un soufflรฉโ€ฆ jusquโ€™ร  ce quโ€™elles sโ€™effondrent sous leur propre poids dโ€™absurditรฉ.


Acte III : Le prix de la folie

Enfin, lโ€™heure de vรฉritรฉ arriva. Les prix sโ€™envolรจrent au-delร  du raisonnable, et les citoyens, le ventre vide et la bourse encore plus creuse, criรจrent grรขce.

Harpagon, autrefois lโ€™homme le plus riche dโ€™Argentville, dรฉcouvrit alors que sa montagne de piรจces ne lui permettait dโ€™acheter guรจre plus quโ€™un pain rassis.

Jacques soupira. ยซ Maรฎtre, que faire ? ยป

Harpagon, enfin humble, se lamenta dramatiquement. ยซ Ah, Jacques, ma folie fut de croire que les chiffres seuls pouvaient me nourrir ! Jโ€™ai passรฉ ma vie ร  adorer lโ€™or, pour dรฉcouvrir quโ€™il ne se mange pas, pas plus que la flatterie. ยป

Et ainsi, avec une rรฉvรฉrence au public, Harpagon et ses compรจres financiers apprirent que la comรฉdie de lโ€™inflation se jouait toujours aux dรฉpens de ceux qui pouvaient le moins se le permettre.


Moralitรฉ : Quand les fortunes reposent sur des illusions, cโ€™est toujours le peuple qui en paie le prix.


Biographie de Moliรจre

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, dit Moliรจre (1622โ€“1673), รฉtait un dramaturge, acteur et poรจte franรงais, considรฉrรฉ comme lโ€™un des plus grands รฉcrivains de la littรฉrature franรงaise. Nรฉ ร  Paris dans une famille aisรฉe, il รฉtudia dโ€™abord le droit avant dโ€™abandonner cette voie pour se consacrer au thรฉรขtre, fondant la troupe de lโ€™Illustre Thรฉรขtre.

Moliรจre devint cรฉlรจbre grรขce ร  ses comรฉdies satiriques qui critiquaient lโ€™hypocrisie, la vanitรฉ et les absurditรฉs de la sociรฉtรฉ du XVIIe siรจcle. Parmi ses ล“uvres majeures figurent Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope, Le Malade Imaginaire et Lโ€™Avare, qui mรชlent finesse dโ€™esprit, critique sociale et farce, souvent au grand dam des puissants, notamment de lโ€™ร‰glise catholique.

Grรขce au soutien de Louis XIV, la troupe de Moliรจre devint la compagnie de thรฉรขtre officielle de la cour. Pourtant, ses piรจces suscitaient rรฉguliรจrement la controverse en raison de leur moquerie des faux dรฉvots et des prรฉtentions aristocratiques. Il resta sur scรจne jusquโ€™ร  sa mort, sโ€™effondrant ironiquement lors dโ€™une reprรฉsentation du Malade Imaginaire en 1673.

Son hรฉritage perdure comme maรฎtre de la comรฉdie, de la satire et de lโ€™innovation thรฉรขtrale, influenรงant encore aujourdโ€™hui dramaturges et comรฉdiens ร  travers le monde.


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