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Don Juan (Molière)
Play form a book of 1682

Dom Juan, or The Feast with a Stone Statue is a play by Molière. It was first performed on February 15, 1660, in the Theatre of the Palais-Royal, Paris. The play is about the legendary libertine, Don Juan. It ends with him going to Hell when he refuses to repent his sins. The play was one of the source materials used by Lorenzo da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when they wrote the opera, Don Giovanni.

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  • La scène du pauvre, Paris 1682, deux états

    Censorship of the play Dom Juan or The Feast with the Statue (1665), by Molière, is documented in the article La scène du pauvre, Paris 1682, dans ses deux états.

  • Le Festin de Pierre

    Title page of the uncensored edition of Le festin de pierre, by Molière. (Amsterdam, 1683)

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