Arnolphe believes he has found the unstoppable way to marry without being deceived: he will take his pupil, Agnes, as wife, whom he has raised in the most complete ignorance of the things of life. But when the ingenuous young woman met Horace, the projects of the barbon were put to the wrong end...In L'École des femmes, which was one of her greatest successes, Molière asked about the place of women in a society regented by men. At its creation in 1662, the play made a scandal: the playwright was reprimanded for his immorality. In response to his detractors, he gave La Critique de l'École des femmes. By staging, in this comedy in one act, a salon where worldlings discuss the incriminated play, Molière offers a masterful defense and illustration of his theatre.