Life and works Antoine Jacob
the characters of la femme juge et partie posthumous edition antoine jacob son of zacharie jacob, first adopt montfleury stage name , had achieved great fame actor , playwright himself. both associated hôtel de bourgogne theatre troupe, institution supported king louis xiv, , antoine marry marie-marguerite de soulas, daughter of comedian floridor in same troupe in 1665. antoine worked lawyer @ first , turned drama in 1660. first productions, le mariage de rien (the void marriage) , les bestes raisonnables (the reasoning beasts), kind of 1 act farces fashionable @ time. latter allowed him satirise contemporary society. on isle of circe, ulysses encounters beasts has transformed humans: ass once doctor, lion had been valet, female doe , horse, of whom denounce decadence of times , resist being changed back. ass there asses everywhere, asses in town square, asses in suburbs, asses in provinces, asses proud @ court, asses browsing in meadows, military asses trooping, asses tripping @ balls