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.
Michel Serrault , Rosy Varte , Daniel Ceccaldi , Jean-Pierre Darras , Roger Carel , Henri Virlogeux , Jacques Legras , Michel Creton , Georges Audoubert , Annick Blancheteau
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