From his first performance, in 1664, Le Tartuffe, satire de la faux devotione et des excesses de la bigoterie, provoked scandal. In front of the accusations of "diabolic" immorality, Louis XIV made the play banned. She would be allowed to represent only after five years of struggles and polemics. On stage, an infamous naughty man disguised as a religious ardent sows chaos. Whether he's teasing one woman's knee or hiding another's breast, Tartuffe only has one profession of faith: "Oh, to be devoured, I'm no less man. Remove the mask of hypocrisy when it drapes in the moralizing dignity of the faith: this is the argument of this comedy, without doubt one of Molière's most acidic.