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, asses in theatre stalls.

to drive criticism home, in end horse, formerly courtesan, willing return former state.

his first play bring him notice, however, satirical one-act verse drama, impromptu of hôtel de condé (1663), written tit-for-tat response 1 molière had mocked father zacharie. latter subsequently deepen feud, shortly before own death, accusing molière of incest. antoine went on make name playwright la femme juge et partie (1669), ran simultaneously tartuffe , accorded respect of equal work contemporaries, although montfleury remained committed situational comedy of spanish theatre styles while molière recreating italian comedy of manners in french mold.

having produced play more or less annually between 1660 , 1678, turned tax collector

in provence such success in 1684 recalled paris receive post of farmer general died on journey.