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August 8, 2026… #movieoftheday is Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (full movie) (2009).
“Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme ( variously translated as The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Middle-Class Aristocrat or The Would-Be Noble) s a 2009 movie adaptation, by French film director and screenwriter Christian de Chalonge , of Molière ’s comédie-ballet which was first performed on October 14, 1670, for the court of Louis XIV at the Château de Chambord …
“ Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron : in Molière's France, a gentleman was by definition nobly born and, thus, there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.” - more at Wikipedia
Monsieur Jourdain, a bourgeois, whose father was a successful cloth merchant, is determined to acquire the manners of a nobleman. He, therefore, surrounds himself with various tutors for instruction in fencing, music, philosophy, and more. Although enamored with the Marquise Dorimène, Jourdain is nonetheless manipulated like a puppet by Count Dorante who exploits the situation to swindle him...
FULL MOVIE (turn on subtitles/closed captions): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfRJfXKNetA
#LeBourgeoisGentilhomme #tangled #Wikipedia #2026
“Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme ( variously translated as The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Middle-Class Aristocrat or The Would-Be Noble) s a 2009 movie adaptation, by French film director and screenwriter Christian de Chalonge , of Molière ’s comédie-ballet which was first performed on October 14, 1670, for the court of Louis XIV at the Château de Chambord …
“ Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron : in Molière's France, a gentleman was by definition nobly born and, thus, there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman.” - more at Wikipedia
Monsieur Jourdain, a bourgeois, whose father was a successful cloth merchant, is determined to acquire the manners of a nobleman. He, therefore, surrounds himself with various tutors for instruction in fencing, music, philosophy, and more. Although enamored with the Marquise Dorimène, Jourdain is nonetheless manipulated like a puppet by Count Dorante who exploits the situation to swindle him...
FULL MOVIE (turn on subtitles/closed captions): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfRJfXKNetA
#LeBourgeoisGentilhomme #tangled #Wikipedia #2026
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