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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
Moliere
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Moliere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1622
Born: October 15
Died: 1673
Died: February 16
Dramaturge
Playwright
Poet
Satirist
Stage Actor
Theatrical Director
Paris
France
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Moliere
Jean-Baptiste Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
Good
Heavens
Prose
Forty
Speaking
Knowing
Heaven
Without
Years
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