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Practical Ethics || Chapter Four
In which Armand breaks into Louis’ office and gets a little more than he bargained for.
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It’s late the following Saturday night when Armand drives his Vespa back to campus.
The doors to Trinity Hall are locked at this hour, but luckily Armand has keycard access since the graduate student offices are located in the dark, almost catacomb-like underbelly of the building. He waves his student ID in front of the sensor and gets into the building without any trouble at all.
It’s dark inside, only a few, sparing lights left on throughout the building. Armand is quiet as a mouse as he navigates the halls that lead toward the Religion and Philosophy department’s suite of offices, listening closely for any sign that he is not alone. He should be, given that even the most studious of students is likely home at this time now that midterms are over, but one can never be too careful.
It isn’t long before Armand is standing in front of a familiar office, the words Louis de Pointe du Lac, Associate Professor printed on the placard fixed to the wall by the door. He notices something new taped to the door as well, and so he uses the light on his iPhone to illuminate it.
It’s a shiny poster advertising a local theater company’s production of Molière’s tragic comedy Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre, featuring art drawn in a charming rococo style.
Did a student ask him to put this up? he wonders. Or does Louis secretly have a passion for French theater?
He turns his attention next to the doorknob. He gently jiggles it and confirms that this door too is locked.
It’s no matter. Armand came prepared.
He pulls a set of lockpicks out of his pocket and kneels in front of the door. It takes a few moments for him to get the door unlocked, but he does manage it without breaking any of his picks and royally fucking himself in the process, so he’ll take it as a win. He enters Louis’ office and quietly shuts and locks the door behind him.
Louis’ office looks different in the dark, shadows throwing strange shapes along the walls as he holds up his flashlight, and it takes him a moment to orient himself. He approaches the bookcases first, carefully scanning the shelves for anything of interest. Many of them are in French, he notes, and all of them seem to either have some relevance to his research interests or are foundational philosophical texts one would expect someone of Louis’ profession to possess.
Hmm, Armand thinks to himself. Perhaps I’ll find something more interesting out of plain sight.
He moves around to his desk next, wondering what secrets his drawers might be hiding.
He starts with the top drawer closest to him and finds, among the paperclips and sticky notes and other ephemera, a white handkerchief monogrammed with the initials LDL in gold thread and a short stack of books intriguingly shoved toward the back. Armand notes the titles with interest.
I Hate You—Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
Loving Someone With Borderline Personality Disorder: How to Keep Out-of-Control Emotions from Destroying Your Relationship
Rebuilding Trust: Guided Therapy Techniques and Activities to Restore Love, Trust, and Intimacy in Your Relationship
Armand doesn’t have long to ponder his discovery, however. As soon as he places them back in the drawer, he hears footsteps and two voices down the hall headed this way.
“Thank you for making the time to meet with me so late, professor,” he hears Lestat of all people say, his French accent unmistakable. “I'm sure you have a very busy schedule.”
What the hell are they doing here on a Saturday night? Armand wonders, panic gripping his chest at this unexpected complication.
Louis’ reply is drowned out by the rushing of blood in Armand’s ears as he shuts Louis’ desk drawer as quickly and quietly as he can. He has a moment of fraught indecision as he glances around the room, looking for somewhere to hide, until he decides the closet on the other end of the room is his only real option.
He nearly trips over the carpet in his haste to get there, but the door is blessedly unlocked and there’s space enough for him to hide. He crouches down low under the shelf and peers through the slats in the door, just managing to turn off the flashlight on his phone as he hears a key turn in the lock.
The door to the office swings open a moment later and Louis pulls the cord on the floor lamp on his way to his desk, bathing the room in soft light. Lestat follows him inside and takes a seat in the same chair Armand had been sitting in not so long ago.
Louis sits down in his own chair and leans back casually. Armand can see that he’s no longer wearing the soft-looking cable knit cardigans he’s seen him in lately, but an officious tweed suit, leather patches at the elbows and all.
“So,” Louis starts, folding his hands together across his abdomen, “what can I do for you, Lestat?”
Armand cannot see Lestat’s face from this vantage point, but he does see him shift slightly in his seat.
“I am concerned about my progress in your course, professor,” Lestat tells him with a voice like honey.
“You should be,” Louis replies, utterly deadpan.
It takes effort for Armand to suppress the laughter he feels in his chest at Louis’ words. Louis isn’t done, though, not by a long shot, and Armand eagerly settles in to listen.
“You’ve barely handed in a thing since the semester began,” he continues. “I know you do your best to keep up with the readings, but you rarely engage in class discussions, and when you have engaged in them, you’ve been insolent and disruptive. If I’m being honest, I don’t see how you can be getting very much out of this experience.”
What Armand wouldn’t give to see the look on Lestat’s face as he absorbs those words.
“Yes,” Lestat says, voice short. He flicks his head as if to clear his hair from his eyes, but he’s wearing it up today—tied back in an artfully messy bun. “In light of my… behavior, I was wondering how much my oral participation grade has suffered.”
Louis stares at Lestat for a long moment.
“Lestat…” Louis begins. “We both know that you are auditing this class. As a non-matriculating student, you won’t be receiving a grade at the end of this semester.”
“Pity,” Lestat says, standing up from his seat and stalking around to the other side of the desk, his movements catlike in their grace. He cocks his hip, leaning against the side of the desk as Louis’ chair rotates to face him. “I was hoping I might be able to participate orally right now to make it up to you.”
Instead of the appalled revulsion Armand is expecting from him, he can see the corner of Louis’ mouth lift in subtle amusement for a moment, even as his eyes darken and the pitch of his voice dips with interest when he asks, “Were you now?”
“Very much so,” Lestat responds, boldly reaching out to caress Louis’ face with one hand, the other braced on the armrest of Louis’ chair to keep his balance as he looms over him. He cups Louis’ cheek gently, his thumb sliding down to sit in the divot on his chin as he raises Louis’ gaze to meet his own more directly.
Any second now, Louis is going to smack that hand away and tell Lestat to get the fuck out.
Armand is sure of it.
He’s sure of it.
But Louis doesn’t smack Lestat’s hand away. He doesn’t even lean away from his touch.
All Louis does do is stare up at Lestat for a charged moment, those big doe eyes full of heat, and then shatter Armand’s mind by telling him, “Then why don’t you show me what that big mouth of yours can do?”
Armand sits in shocked silence as he watches a smug grin curl around Lestat’s lips as he falls gracefully to his knees in front of where Louis sits. His view is obstructed by Louis’ glossy black desk, but Armand can hear everything, each sound distinct as it reaches his ears.
A belt coming undone.
A zipper sliding down tiny metal teeth.
The rustling of fabric.
The hitch in Louis’ breath as Lestat bows his head and finally takes him into his mouth.
This is insane. Armand thinks. This cannot be happening.
Armand’s Ethics professor—the very same one who was deeply concerned about Marius manipulating and abusing him, to the point of derailing an entire class just to remind his students of the ethical problems of student/teacher relationships—is absolutely not getting his dick sucked by a student in his office!
But even as his mind rebels against the very idea, Armand cannot ignore the evidence of his own eyes and ears, nor can he bring himself to look away, his attention caught on the rapturous look on Louis’ face and the slick sounds of Lestat’s mouth on his cock as the top of his head bobs in and out of view over the edge of the desk.
Louis looks so beautiful like this, Armand can’t help but notice, his brown eyes even darker, brow furrowed in pleasure the deeper Lestat takes him down his throat. Lestat’s golden curls have been pulled loose from their tie, Louis combing through the strands as he cradles his head in his palms, and Armand is struck with the sudden, visceral desire to know what they would feel like slipping through his own fingers.
“You got no idea how insane you make me,” Louis practically growls, his voice rough as he no doubt watches his cock disappear into Lestat’s mouth again and again. “What it’s like watching you sit in the front fucking row of my class, sucking on your pen ‘cause you can’t get through a single goddamn lecture without something in your mouth. You need my dick that bad, huh?”
Lestat pulls off of Louis, a gossamer thread of saliva connecting his mouth to the head of Louis’ cock. Louis reaches out and breaks it with a swipe of his thumb over Lestat’s swollen bottom lip.
“Yes,” Lestat rasps, his hand still diligently working Louis’ shaft in firm pulls. “Always.”
He bows his head again and takes Louis back into his mouth. It’s hard to see what he’s doing with the desk blocking his view, but he must do something because suddenly Louis—who has been fairly silent thus far—lets out a loud curse, his spine bowing off the back of the chair for a moment before he recovers.
“Should just keep you under my desk like this, use you whenever I want,” Louis muses, eyes once more fixed on Lestat’s mouth. “You’d like that, wouldn’t you?”
Lestat moans hungrily around his cock and appears to nod.
“Such a goddamn slut, Lestat,” Louis tells him, something like affection or amusement in his voice.
Lestat makes some sound like a whimper before he pulls off and pants up at Louis with a dazed look on his face.
“Say it again,” Lestat begs him. “Please, I love to hear you say it.”
Louis sits up from where he’s sunk deeper into his chair, leaning over Lestat to get right in his face. Lestat’s chest heaves with every breath, his gaze flickering back and forth between Louis’ eyes and his mouth.
“You’re a slut,” Louis says again, and a small moan pushes past Lestat’s lips before he surges forward to kiss him.
The kiss is short, but deep and passionate, Louis’ tongue pushing past Lestat’s teeth as he cups his face between his palms.
“Fuck me,” Lestat begs when he pulls away, his voice high and needy as he wrinkles the front of Louis’ suit with desperate fingers. “Over your desk, come on.”
Louis nods and Lestat jumps to his feet immediately, revealing for the first time how hard he is pressed against the tight fabric of his jeans.
That must be painful, Armand thinks, feeling the throbbing of his own cock like a distant ache—easy to ignore with his attention so firmly placed on the scene in front of him.
Lestat is about to shove everything on Louis’ desk to the floor with a blind sweep of his arm, but Louis’ hand suddenly shoots out to stop him.
“Watch the pictures,” Louis reprimands him, softer than Armand would have thought he’d be.
Armand almost expects Lestat to laugh, but instead he pauses to look at the small cluster of frames for a moment, a sentimental smile on his face. He reaches out to collect them from the desk with care before turning back around and reaching up to caress Louis’ cheek.
“Apologies, mon ange,” he whispers, barely audible to Armand’s ears. “They are precious memories indeed.”
Louis leans in to kiss him again, the pictures in Lestat’s hand caught between their bodies. When he pulls away, Louis takes them from Lestat and sets them down on top of a row of books on the bookshelf behind him.
With the pictures safe and out of the way, the heat begins to build between them once more, fueled by hungry kisses and lingering touches. Papers and other office accoutrement flutter to the floor as Louis presses Lestat back against its shiny wooden surface.
Lestat is the one to break the kiss, spinning slowly around to press his ass against Louis’ groin. He looks over his shoulder as he reaches for his own belt, holding Louis’ gaze as he frees the leather from its buckle with practiced fingers and slides his jeans off his hips.
Armand catches a glimpse of his flushed, pink cock, nestled between golden curls and glistening at the tip, before Lestat bends over the desk until his chest hits the wood. He pillows his head on his own folded arms, making himself comfortable.
Louis is breathing hard as he pushes Lestat’s t-shirt up his back, tracing the knots of his spine with a tease of his fingers before he turns his attention elsewhere. He kicks Lestat’s feet a little further apart and spreads his cheeks with both hands.
“This is new,” Louis says, one hand dropping down to toy with something between Lestat’s legs.
With his head resting on his folded arms, Armand can see Lestat smirk wickedly.
“Do you like it?” he asks, his voice breathy as he cants his hips back toward Louis’ hand.
“What do you think?” Louis replies.
“I think—” Lestat cuts off with a moan as Louis does something to him Armand can’t see. “I think you should take it out of me already and replace it with something better.”
Louis takes the green pocket square still sitting in his breast pocket and lays it on the desk mat Lestat is sprawled out on before he reaches between his legs again. Armand watches Lestat bite his lip as Louis works behind him and a moment later Louis places a fairly large stainless steel butt plug down on top of his pocket square. It rolls slightly once it’s set down, enough that Armand can see the faint glint of an emerald-colored jewel in its base.
His fingers return to Lestat’s hole after that, and Armand can just imagine what he must look like with Louis’ fingers sinking into him, his rim stretched tight as Louis tests how wet and open he is.
“Do you have lube?” Louis asks him, his arm moving as he fucks him gently with his fingers.
“Back pocket,” Lestat answers.
Louis dips out of view as he searches Lestat’s clothes and returns shortly with a small packet of lube. He tears it open between his teeth and slicks himself up with practiced ease before lining up his bare cock with Lestat’s hole.
Armand can spot the exact moment Louis breaches him because he can see it on Lestat’s face, in the way his mouth drops open on a moan as Louis works his way inside until his hips meet Lestat’s ass and his cock is sheathed entirely inside him. Louis barely gives Lestat a second to adjust before he starts to fuck him, one hand curled around Lestat’s hip and the other splayed against his back, pressing his chest flat against the desk.
Armand watches the movements of their bodies with fascination as the room fills with their moans and the obscene sound of skin against skin. In spite of everything, it is difficult to ignore how beautiful the two of them look together—Lestat’s wild blonde curls bouncing with every thrust of Louis’ hips, his knuckles white where they grip the far edge of the desk, and Louis’ beautiful face drawn in quiet pleasure as he chases his orgasm in the tight, clutching heat of Lestat’s body.
After a while, Louis’ hand drops from Lestat’s hips to reach lower, presumably to wrap around his cock if the way Lestat moans sharply a moment later is any indication.
“Louis,” Lestat whines, an edge of urgency in his voice.
“What is it, cher?” Louis asks with a tenderness Armand isn’t expecting.
“‘M gonna come,” Lestat announces, Louis’ hips shoving him harder against the desk with every word, no doubt dragging his cock in and out of Louis’ tight grip.
“‘Course you are,” Louis says, before leaning down close, his lips to Lestat’s ear. He whispers something to him then, his hips slowing to a dirty grind, and Armand can’t hear what he’s saying, but the combination of his words and how deep he is inside him has Lestat’s face contorting with scandalized delight.
Lestat’s entire body tenses a moment later with the force of his orgasm, his flushed expression one of total ecstasy. Louis seems to follow him over the edge, shoving himself as deep as he can get as he releases quietly inside him, his face buried in the crook of Lestat’s neck.
They stay locked together for a minute or so, Louis draped across Lestat’s back as they regain their breath. Once he’s come down a bit, Louis straightens up and reaches for the plug he’d taken out of him, which had miraculously not rolled off the desk. With it in hand, he at last pulls slowly out of Lestat, and in almost the same instant replaces his cock with cold, hard metal, plugging Lestat full of his come.
“Fuck,” Lestat whines, no doubt squirming from the sudden change in temperature.
They each pull their pants back up—Louis first and then Lestat as he begins to regain the use of his limbs—and once Louis has tucked himself away he collapses backward into his chair with an exhausted sigh.
“How was that, professor?” Lestat asks, his voice rough as he turns around and boldly climbs into Louis’ lap, his thighs spread across his hips.
“A for effort,” Louis replies, his arms coming around him without hesitation and reciprocating the kiss Lestat presses to his mouth.
“From the look on your face, I’d say I’ve earned an A for more than just effort,” Lestat says in a low, sultry voice when he pulls away. He strokes manicured fingers down the front of Louis’ shirt, smoothing down the rumpled fabric. “In fact, my husband tells me I’m the best he’s ever had.”
HUSBAND? Armand’s eyes widen in disbelief.
“Does he now?” Louis asks, unperturbed by this revelation, but Armand barely hears it, his mind still stuck on the fact that Louis is sleeping with his student who is also a married man.
Do the ethical problems with this situation never cease?
“Mhmm,” Lestat hums, pulling Louis into another kiss and then another.
“Wasn’t too mean, was I?” Louis asks him when they part.
Lestat laughs against Louis’ cheek. “No, mon cher, you were perfect.”
They kiss a while longer, utterly absorbed in one another until Louis catches sight of the clock on the wall.
“Shit, it’s late,” Louis says, pushing Lestat’s chest gently to urge him off his lap. “We gotta go.”
Lestat pouts, but doesn’t argue, slipping off of Louis’ lap with preternatural grace and offering him a hand. As Louis takes it and stands, his eyes catch on something in Armand’s general direction. His brow furrows as he rounds the desk and walks to the other side of the room, his eyes cast down at the floor.
Specifically, at the rug Armand had nearly tripped over in his haste to get to the closet.
The rug, which Armand can now see in the dim light, has one of its corners flipped up.
The pit of Armand’s stomach drops out from under him.
“What is it?” Lestat asks impatiently, waiting for him at the door now.
Louis gives the room a cursory glance before he walks over and uses the toe of his shoe to flip the rug’s corner back into place.
“Nothing,” he says. “Come on, let’s go.”
They both head out the open door, turning out the light before they close it behind them, leaving Armand trembling in the dark.
#loustat#loustat fic#armand#interview with the vampire#iwtv fic#ethics professor louis fic#don't read this at work lmao
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起源は17世紀後半にコメディ・イタリアンにて公開されたDom Juan ou le Festin de pierreに登場するキャラクターである。当時のピエロの性格は今とは異なり、純粋で鈍感な農民であった。その後もいろいろな作品で登場していくうち、今のピエロのイメージに近くなっていった。名前の由来はイタリア人男性の名前であるPierreがPierrotに変化したものである。したがって女性のピエロは存在しない。真っ白な顔に大きなボタンが付いたゆったりとした白いブラウスと幅広の白いパンタロンを着ている。黒い涙のようなメイクをしていたり、フリルの付いた襟や帽子や円錐の形をした帽子をかぶっていることもある。日本ではピエロとクラウンを混同している人が殆どだが、大きな間違いである。
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Dom Juan ou Le Festin de pierre est une comédie en cinq actes et en prose du dramaturge, comédien et poète français Molière.
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Halt, Don Juan ; yesterday you gave your word that you would come dine with me.
#dom juan ou le festin de pierre#Molière#baroque#17th century#Don Juan#Don Giovanni#french lit#1660s#baroque theatre#my art
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Molière’s “Don Juan the Libertine” at the Ghent Playhouse
Molière’s “Don Juan the Libertine” at the Ghent Playhouse
The world premiere of Daniel Hoyt Daniels’ translation May 24-June 9
[GHENT, NY] The Ghent Playhouse presents “Don Juan the Libertine,” an ageless comedy based on Dom Juan or Le Festin de Pierre by Molière (1665), newly translated by Daniel Hoyt Daniels, and directed by Barbara Leavel Smith. The production runs May 24-June 9. Tickets are on sale now at www.GhentPlay
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#Barbara Leavel Smith#Cathy Lee-Visscher#Cathy Schane-Lydon#Daniel Hoyt Daniels#Dom Juan or Le Festin de Pierre#Don Juan the Libertine#Ghent NY#Ghent Playhouse#Jean-Baptiste Poquelin#Joanne Maurer#Moliere#Sam Reilly#The Ghent Playhouse
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hi! i'm writing a fanfic where the love square bonds over their shared interest in classic literature but i don't know what is considered 'classic' in france. are they the same as english classics, just translated? or are they historical french literature only?
Hiyaa!
When we study books in French classic literature, we indeed mostly learn about what's considered "classic" and a key work in France.
It happens that we'll learn of some translated ones from the most famous ones in English, like some book plays from Shakespeare (I know I studied "Romeo & Juliette"), but it'll mostly be the French ones!
A few French authors we'll likely read from that come to mind:
Victor Hugo (particularly, "Les Misérables" is one almost everyone studies at some point in their French class)
Émile Zola (I know I studied "Germinal" but there are other books, it depends what the French teacher want to study)
Molière - it's the French author we all study at some point for plays (some famous ones are "Le Tartuffe", "Le Malade Imaginaire" - famous especially cause Molière died very shortly after a representation for which he incarnated the eponym role aka the hypochondriac - , "Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre", etc).
Edmond Rostand (his play "Cyrano de Bergerac" is one of the most famous here)
Jean Racine (pretty famous for plays as well, like "Phèdre" or "Andromaque")
Pierre Corneille ("Le Cid" is one of his most famous plays)
Madame de La Fayette (she wrote "La Princesse de Clève" which I know some study too at school, at least I did)
Voltaire (for instance, "Candide" is pretty famous)
Beaudelaire (for poems, "Les Fleurs du Mal" is a famous collection of poems from him)
Albert Camus ("L'étranger" or "La Peste" are often studied)
Jean de La Fontaine (really famous for his fables)
Guy de Maupassant (he wrote novels and short stories, some famous ones are "Le Horla" which belongs to the fantastic and psychologic register, pretty new for the time, or "Bel-Ami")
There are a lot more obviously but I gave you a few to work with in no particular order, I just wrote them as they came to mind ahaha!
Hope this answers your question and helps!! 😄
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L’Atlas Molière de Clara DEALBERTO, Jules GRANDIN et Christophe SCHUWEY
Résumé : Une incroyable somme d’informations présentée de manière ludique et accessible à tous.
Avec 150 cartes et infographies, cet atlas est une encyclopédie visuelle sur la vie, l’œuvre et l’époque de Molière. Les auteurs sont allés au-delà de la figure du saltimbanque mélancolique qui s’est imposée dans notre imaginaire collectif. Ils nous font découvrir un Molière entrepreneur de génie, un publicitaire en avance sur son temps, un créateur de spectacles extraordinaires.
En textes et en images, ce livre nous permet de revisiter nos classiques de manière vivante et décomplexée : Les Précieuses ridicules, Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope, L’Avare, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Psyché, Les Fourberies de Scapin, Les Femmes savantes ou encore Le Malade imaginaire… Parce qu’un dessin vaut parfois mieux qu’un long discours.
Le plus grand dramaturge français comme vous ne l’avez jamais vu !
Paru aux Editions les Arènes le 13 janvier 2022. Lien vers le site de l’éditeur et mon avis dessus est à dérouler en-dessous ! :D
Mon avis : Molière… Personnellement, le souvenir que j’en ai gardé, c’est l’adaptation télévisuelle avec Louis de Funès de l’Avare. Je pense que Louis de Funès a clairement aidé à ce que je me souvienne un tout petit peu de la pièce. J’ai étudié Dom Juan ou le festin de pierre au lycée et honnêtement… Je serais bien incapable de me souvenir de quoi il en retourne. Quant à la biographie de Molière, je reconnais que c’est aussi flou. Autant dire que j’ai apprécié qu’on rentre dans une année de célébration le concernant. L’un des avantages des célébrations est qu’on se retrouve inondé de créations par rapport à lui. On a clairement de tout et il faut savoir fouiller pour trouver son bonheur. C’est par le biais de twitter que j’ai vu passé l’annonce de la sortie de l’Atlas Molière. En effet, j’avais suivi de loin le projet autour du bébégraphe de Jules GRANDIN et de Clara DEALBERTO. J’avais plutôt bien aimé ce projet, aussi, quand j’ai vu qu’ils sortaient un livre d’infographie sur Molière… Pourquoi pas ? Cela me changera de ce que je peux lire habituellement en ce moment.
Déjà, ce qui m’a plu rien qu’en achetant le livre, c’est que ce n’est pas une simple biographie mais une infographie. Certes, on retrouve les grandes caractéristiques d’une biographie (chronologie des évènements, une remise dans le contexte…). Mais, vu que c’est une infographie, on va mettre en scène les chiffres de manière à ce que ce soit compréhensible. Et là, on peut clairement dire que c’est l’une des forces du livre. Les infographies ne sont pas simplement des illustrations pour rendre la lecture plus digeste car les images sont jolies. Non, les infographies remplissent parfaitement leur rôle car elles sont à elles seules bien souvent plus parlantes que des pages d’analyses chiffrés. Certes, un chiffre reste un chiffre mais celui-ci devient tellement plus parlant lorsqu’il dépasse l’échelle de la représentation graphique pour finir sous le texte. C’est également aussi plus parlant de pointer sur une carte les lieux pour se faire des représentations graphiques. Je pourrais multiplier les exemples par rapport à ses diverses représentations car il y en a énormément. (Mention spéciale au graphique sur les ambitions des auteurs pour l’Atlas Molière en page 13 qui m’a énormément fait sourire !)
L’un des autres points forts de l’ouvrage est le travail scientifique de SCHUWEY. Christophe SCHUWEY enseigne la littérature française à l’université de YALE et un spécialiste de l’époque de Molière. Si l’ouvrage mentionne des éléments assez courants sur l’époque de la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle et de la vie de Molière, j’ai été agréablement surprise de lire des éléments peu courants dans l’historiographie française du XVIIe siècle. Je ne prétends pas tout connaître de l’historiographie du XVIIe siècle surtout côté Louis XIV (je suis groupie de Gaston d’Orléans après tout). En revanche, Louis XIV est une figure plus ou moins incontournable des programmes scolaires (et pas que). De ce que j’ai pu lire, les auteurs français sont bien souvent sur des visions quasiment uniquement franco-françaises. Ca se traduit par exemple dans le fait que « Louis XIV est le plus grand roi du monde », « Louis XIV est le plus [INSERER UN SUPERLATIF] », Stéphane Bern qui passe par là pour raconter l’histoire de la fistule anale de ce cher Louis XIV qui finit en God Save The Queen (oui, c’est facile, je sais…). Là, dans l’Atlas Molière, on n’hésite pas par exemple à resituer Louis XIV dans le contexte mondial (et c’est pas grand-chose contrairement à ce que la propagande royale veut faire croire). Ce genre de vision à contre-courant de ce qu’on peut entendre dans les médias français, je ne l’ai bien souvent entendu que de la part de lecture anglophone/traduction d’ouvrages anglophones. Je ne dis pas que cela n’existe pas dans la littérature scientifique française (et je suis certaine que cela existe en cherchant un peu) mais celle-ci demeure trop rare dans les ouvrages à destination du grand public. C’est donc quelque peu rafraîchissant de voir ça dans un livre relativement grand public.
Enfin, l’Atlas Molière sait aussi trouver le bon compromis entre vulgarisation scientifique et ouvrage très érudit. Il est donc tout à fait accessible à celleux qui ne sont pas du tout spécialement au fait du XVIIe siècle comme pour ceux qui en savent deux ou trois choses. Après, cela reste un ouvrage de vulgarisation. Cela implique qu’on pourrait dire que certains éléments ne sont pas forcément assez traités ou qu’on aimerait en avoir plus. Cependant, entre les notes et la bibliographie fournies, il y a suffisamment de pistes pour pouvoir approfondir et devenir incollables sur Molière. :)
En somme, l’Atlas Molière est un livre que je recommande chaudement surtout dans cette année de célébrations des 400 ans de la célébration de la naissance de l’auteur. D’autant plus que vous risquez comme moi de vouloir relire/revoir les pièces de Molière afin de pouvoir pleinement apprécié les clés de lecture fournis dans l’ouvrage.
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LE COLOSSE A DES PIEDS D’ARGILE
Jeanne QHEHEILLARD / Répétition, vue générale - © Tristan Jeanne-Valès
DOM JUAN OU LE FESTIN DE PIERRE
Au Théâtre de l’Union, pas de décor en carton-pâte pour le classique de Molière. Stéphane Blanquet et Jean Lambert-wild ont conçu la scénographie en intégrant des savoir-faire du Limousin.
Malgré les lieux multiples de l’intrigue, les scènes se tiennent dans un même décor. En fond d’une bâtisse en ruine, une tapisserie d’Aubusson monumentale est envahie d’un motif organique foisonnant où plantes et animaux fantastiques se côtoient. Cette enveloppe absorbe acteurs et musiciens.
Par contraste, des éléments en porcelaine font entrevoir la fragilité du mythe. Les marches d’un escalier hélicoïdal en porcelaine donnent une note ostensiblement précieuse par leur prise de lumière et la précaution qu’elles supposent.
Idem pour les chaussons en porcelaine de Dom Juan, qui selon les termes de Jean Lambert-wild, porteur du rôle, relèvent d’une « folie poétique et d’un ravissement ». Le destin tragicomique de Dom Juan se joue avec ce décor où toute enveloppe a un revers et l’absorption un risque d’étouffement.
La générosité et l’opiniâtreté des industriels et des artisans apportent des solutions remarquables. L’entreprise Néolice1, dotée du seul métier à tisser numérique de type Jacquard à Aubusson, a fourni six mois de travail pour réaliser des pendrillons de 7 m de long, soit 280 m2 de tapisserie. Pour convertir les couleurs en points de tissage, Marion Barbier, designer textile, a encodé aux dimensions du métier un dessin en A4 (image HD de 256 couleurs) de Stéphane Blanquet. Elle a procédé à une réduction en 8 couleurs, pour une définition basse de 6,3 fils au cm (= 6,3 pixels au cm). Cette démarche vise l’économie de matière et de temps, une tapisserie moins épaisse et moins raide, un tissage plus facile et plus rapide. La magnificence du dessin est conservée grâce au mélange fil à fil pour les variations colorées.
L’habillage de l’escalier a nécessité des ajustements exigeants pour l’usine Porcelaines de la fabrique. La perfection des formes trapézoïdales fait oublier la complexité d’une réalisation soumise aux rétractations de cuisson. Christian Couty2 réitère sa collaboration avec le Théâtre de l’Union en réalisant les chaussures de Dom Juan3. Finement décorées, matelassées à l’intérieur, elles sont moulées aux pieds de l’acteur. Elles contraignent à une gestuelle tendue et souple à la fois où malgré la liberté affichée, la démarche de l’impénitent séducteur se fait attentive.
Cette alliance d’entreprises contemporaines aux savoir-faire ancestraux enrichit le territoire où elles agissent. En artisan du théâtre comme « art du présent en prise avec la mémoire », Jean Lambert-wild y voit une histoire commune de transmission. « Chaque matin se remettre à l’ouvrage, se nourrir de la tradition pour innover et transmettre.
1. Entreprise Néolice à Felletin (23500), dirigée par M. et Mme Creissen. Tapisserie réalisée par Francis Semouiller et Marion Barbier.
2. Collaboration avec l’artiste porcelainier Christian Couty, Porcelaines de la Fabrique, Esprit Porcelaine et le soutien du Fonds de dotation de l’Union.
3. Réalisation de l’armure de porcelaine en bleu de four de Richard III pour le spectacle Richard III, Loyaulté me lie, Théâtre de l’Union, janvier 2016.
Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre, direction Jean Lambert-wild et Lorenzo Malaguerra, du mardi 19 au vendredi 29 mars, 20 h, sauf les 21, 22 et 28/03, à 19 h ; le 23/03, à 17 h ; les 26 et 29/03, à 14 h, Théâtre de l’Union – Centre dramatique national du Limousin, Limoges (87000). www.theatre-union.fr
du mardi 2 au vendredi 5 avril, 20 h 30, sauf les 3 et 4/04, à 19 h 30, La Coupe d’or, Rochefort (17300). www.theatre-coupedor.com
#Expositions#Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre#Jean Lambert-wild#Lorenzo Malaguerra#Théâtre de l’Union#Centre dramatique national du Limousin#Limoges#La Coupe d’or#Rochefort#Mars 2019
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Molière - Le Festin de Pierre
Molière - Le Festin de Pierre : Le Festin de Pierre est une comédie de Molière en cinq actes et en prose dont la « Troupe de Monsieur frère unique du roi » donna quinze représentations triomphales en février et mars 1665 sur le théâtre de la grande salle du Palais-Royal à Paris. Annoncée et donnée avec pour sous-titre L'Athée foudroyé, elle était la troisième adaptation française de la légende de Don Juan Tenorio, Elle donne à suivre les trente-six dernières heures de la vie du jeune dom Juan Tenorio, « esprit fort » et grand amateur de femmes, flanqué tout au long des cinq actes de Sganarelle, valet couard, glouton et friand de disputes intellectuelles. Provocateur impénitent, dom Juan n'échappera pas à la vengeance du Ciel, qui le châtiera par le bras d'une statue de pierre. (Wikipédia.) Le spectacle, où se mêlent tous les registres, du comique farcesque au sérieux, voire au tragique, est accueilli avec enthousiasme par le public parisien, mais fait l'objet d’une violente attaque dans les semaines qui suivent les représentations. Il ne sera jamais repris du vivant de Molière et le texte n'en sera imprimé que dix ans après sa mort. La place unique qu’elle occupe, par sa singularité formelle, dans la production de son auteur, la singularité de son histoire, la réputation de modernité et de complexité qui lui est faite par ses exégètes depuis une soixantaine d’années, l’importance sans cesse croissante que lui accordent les programmes et manuels scolaires, enfin la grande diversité des mises en scène auxquelles elle a donné lieu depuis sa redécouverte, font de cette comédie de l’incrédulité châtiée un des avatars les plus fascinants du mythe de don Juan. (Wikipédia.) édition partenaire LABEX OBVIL, Sorbonne Université (https://obvil.sorbonne-universite.fr/). Illustration BNR : Pierre Brissart, Frontispice de l’édition de 1682. Téléchargements : ePUB - PDF - PDF (Petits Écrans) - Kindle-MOBI - HTML - DOCX/TXT Read the full article
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“Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre” de Jean Lambert-wild et Lorenzo Malaguerra d’après le mythe de Don Juan et le Dom Juan de Molière au Théâtre de la Cité Internationale
L'infernal Paradis...L'intérêt d'un mythe est qu'on peut le réinterpréter à l'infini, le déconstruire pour mieux le refaçonner. Jean-Lambert-wild décide de s'emparer de celui de Don Juan en lui attribuant quelques aspects de son clown blanc récurrent Gramblanc. Ou plutôt en superposant ce dernier au grand séducteur devant l'Eternel, comme par un étonnant morphing dans lequel les deux personnages cohabitent et s'affrontent en une éternelle lutte forcément fatale.
S'appuyant principalement sur le Dom Juan de Molière, Lambert-wild, accompagné de Lorenzo Malaguerra, nous proposent une version déroutante mais non moins intéressante de cet anti-Casanova. Vomissant dès l'ouverture de la pièce, la fin annoncée ressemble ainsi à la fuite en avant d'un homme condamné non par la fureur divine mais par la maladie dévorante.
(c) Tristan Jeanne-Valès
Lambert-wild suit ainsi sa partition clownesque avec tous ses excès loufoques et grotesques. Dans le sens initial du mot, à savoir ces ornements fantastiques trouvés dans les grottes italiennes. Car l'imposante et remarquable scénographie, réalisée à partir de véritable porcelaine de Limoges et de tapisseries en point numérique d'Aubusson nous offre un espace clos grandiose et merveilleux, une jungle carnavalesque où résonnent les cris d'animaux sauvages et inquiétants. Illustrant ce paysage digne d'un fantasme oscillant entre Fellini et Lynch, où anachronismes et paradoxes s'en donnent à cœur joie, trois musiciens poudrés accompagnent le spectacle à la manière d'une pantomime juchée sur un décor forain de train fantôme prêt à laisser s'agiter ses squelettes démembrés.
(c) Thierry Laporte
Lambert-wild, dans le rôle titre où il se joue à souhait de l'hypocrisie et de l'ignominie, a eu de plus l'excellente idée de s'accompagner d'une Sganarelle féminine : Yaya Mbilé Bitang, dans son accoutrement rappelant l'Orfeu negro de Marcel Camus, installe, habite et renouvelle la vision de l'éternel serviteur spolié de ses gages. Sa présence rayonnante auprès de son « abominable maître » est un pur plaisir qui nous séduit et nous ravit tout au long de la pièce. La participation enfin, pour les autres personnages, de jeunes comédien.n.es de l'Ecole Supérieure Professionnelle de Théâtre maintient et accentue cette vision de nouveauté et de dynamisme pour un texte tant de fois joué.
Lambert-wild et Malaguerra nous promènent ainsi dans ce que Francis Jammes nommait « la mystérieuse avenue d'un jardin étrangement enchanté ». Mais si celui-ci peut avoir des allures paradisiaques, il n'en reste pas moins pour son personnage principal la porte d'entrée vers un Enfer éternel, un seuil expiatoire où il fanfaronnera jusqu’au bout de sa perte.
« Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre » de Jean Lambert-wild et Lorenzo Malaguerra d'après le mythe de Don Juan et le Dom Juan de Molière
jusqu'au 15 février 2020 au Théâtre de la Cité Internationale
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MOLIERE
Les Oeuvres de Monsieur de Molière
Chez Denys Thierry, Claude Barbin et Pierre Trabouillet, à Paris 1682, in-12 (9x16,5cm), (24) 304pp. (4) et 416pp. (4) et 308pp. (4) et 296pp. (4) et 335pp. (mal chiffr. 535) (1) et 195pp. (5) et 261pp. (3) et 312pp., 8 volumes reliés.
Première édition collective complète, en partie originale, et première édition illustrée. Edition originale pour Dom Garcie de Navarre, L'Impromptu de Versailles, Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre, Les Amans magnifiques, La comtesse d'Escarbagnas. Elle est illustrée de 30 figures gravées sur cuivre par Jean Sauvé d’après Pierre Brissart, dont 21 hors texte et 9 comprises dans la pagination.
Reliures XIXème en plein maroquin rouge, dos jansénistes à cinq nerfs, date dorée en queue, doubles filets dorés sur les coupes et les coiffes, large dentelle dorée en encadrement des contreplats et plats de papier à la cuve, toutes tranches dorées. Reliure signée Lortic.
"Première édition complète des oeuvres de Molière. Elle fut publiée par le comédien Charles Varlet de La Grange, l'un des plus intimes camarades de Molière et le secrétaire de sa troupe, et un autre de ses amis nommé Vinot. [...] Les éditeurs se servirent, pour faire cette édition, du texte même des manuscrits de Molière, plus ou moins revu et corrigé par lui, soit pour les besoins des représentations, soit pour l'impression. De sorte que le texte de 1682 diffère souvent un peu de celui des éditions originales séparées et de l'édition collective de 1674. [...] Malgré cela, c'est le texte qui a le plus souvent servi de modèle pour les nombreuses éditions données jusqu'à nos jours." (J. Le Petit, Bibliographie des principales éditions originales). .
Superbe exemplaire de la fameuse édition de 1682 établi dans une très élégante reliure signée de Marcelin Lortic.
https://www.edition-originale.com/fr/livres-anciens-1455-1820/editions-originales/moliere-les-oeuvres-de-monsieur-de-moliere-1682-54099
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« Mais quel est le superbe édifice que je vois entre ces arbres ? - Vous ne le savez pas ? - Non, vraiment. - Bon! c'est le tombeau que le Commandeur faisait faire lorsque vous le tuâtes. - Ah! tu as raison. Je ne savais pas que c'était de ce côté-ci qu'il était. Tout le monde m'a dit des merveilles de cet ouvrage, aussi bien que de la statue du Commandeur, et j'ai envie de l'aller voir » Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre - Molière (1665) #sauvesparlekong #sauvesparlapoesie #sauvesparletheatre #moliere #molierehongkong #livrestagram #statue #statueducommandeur (à Central District, Hong Kong)
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Extrait Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre avec Michel Piccoli (2)
RIP Michel Piccoli
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Silly question I wanted to ask: what's a piece of literature you studied in middle school/high school that you thought was going to be boring, but was actually fascinating?
For me it was "Dom Juan ou le festin de pierre" (i think that the name) by Molière. Just the build up from Dom Juan being a flirty bastard to him being sent to hell after commiting to many offences is honestly awesome.
#la princesse de Clèves was also good#its about a woman who got married to some guy she didn't really love but then fall madly in love with another man#but because she wants to keep her virtue#she ignores him#even after her husband's death and becomes a nun so she's no longer tempted by this man#it was quite a hard read because old french is a pain in the ass to read#but it was quite nice!
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4 EN BREF
12 MUSIQUES BLA NEF TUNNG JAAKKO EINO KALEVI CHRISTIAN OLIVIER RUFUS WAINWRIGHT SIDÉRAL PSYCH FEST BORDEAUX LAS HERMANAS CARONNI SUNN O))) DB CLIFFORD FESTIVAL NOUVELLE(S) SCÈNE(S) BERTRAND BELIN
20 EXPOSITIONS DANS L’INTIMITÉ DE ROGER BISSIÈRE ARCHITECTURE DU BAUHAUS CLAIRE FONTAINE BABETTE MANGOLTE—SPACES TO SEE LISIÈRES LA PARADE MODERNE, CLÉDAT & PETITPIERRE ANETTE LENZ DOM JUAN OU LE FESTIN DE PIERRE À PLAT L’HORIZON, BENOÎT GÉHANNE
34 SCÈNES PIÈCE D’ACTUALITÉ N°9-DÉSOBÉIR L’AUTRE RIVE BERLIN SEQUENZ WE WERE THE FUTURE PERIPÉ’CIRQUE UN PAYS DANS LE CIEL FISH MIND#4 LOUIS LUBAT RÉDA SIDDIKI FESTIVALS DE DANSE EN NOUVELLE-AQUITAINE
42 LITTÉRATURE
44 JEUNE PUBLIC
48 GASTRONOMIE JEAN-LUC ROCHA
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