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Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, by the late C. R. Leslie...South Kensington Museum, 1864. Creator: W Thomas.

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Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, by the late C. R. Leslie, R.A., in the Sheepshanks Collection, South Kensington Museum, 1864. Engraving of a painting. A rich retired woollen-draper is learning to fence. '...after a long involuntary fit of laughing at the strange aspect of her master in a new and fashionable morning reception suit... Nicole, the saucy housemaid...has been joined by her mistress, the sensible and unpretending Mdme. Jourdain...to convince the maid of her impertinence in owning to a special grudge against the fencing-master for filling the house with dust (notice the broom so aptly placed in Nicole's hand), he calls for a pair of foils..."There, push at me a little, to try." "Well, how?" says the maid, thrusting at him...and giving him, notwithstanding his awkward attempts to parry, several hits...to the unconcealed delight of the wife. "Very good! But hold! Oh! gently. The deuce take the hussy!" cries M. Jourdain, smarting under the humiliation. "Why, you told me to push," says Nicole...Poor M. Jourdain! he is slow to apprehend...[that] in fencing, an untaught but nimble and determined person generally gets at least the first hits out of a person less naturally adroit, though aided by a knowledge of the rules of the art'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A15_200

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,0Mo (4,8Mo) / 45,4cm x 28,8cm / 5357 x 3396 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female women woman people male sport employment job man men arts class country marriage play French France art guy occupation British color humour funny screen drama location century middle class Britain profession employer employee silly newspapers press print concept fencing foil foils wives wife husband B&W broom servant stance gender 17th century maid engraved engraving middle-class Colour broomstick parry 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black parrying nineteenth century servants seventeenth century The Print Collector bourgeoisie Illustrated London News social class ILN Charles Robert Leslie newspaper Jean Baptiste de Moliere Moliere Poquelin W Thomas Thomas W Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Bourgeois Charles R Leslie C. R. Leslie Leslie Charles Robert Jean-Baptiste Jean Baptiste de Jean-Baptiste Poquelin de Moliere Poquelin de Moliere The Bourgeois Gentleman The Middle-Class Aristocrat The Would-Be Noble gender role Moli?re Poquelin de Moli?re Jean-Baptiste Poquelin de Moli?re Jean Baptiste de Moli?re 19th-century W. Thomas Thomas W.