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Updated: May 14, 2025
It is a remarkable feature, though not perhaps a singular one, in the character of this great comic writer, that he was one of the most serious of men, and even of a melancholic temperament. One of his lampooners wrote a satirical comedy on the comic poet, where he figures as "Molière hypochondre." Boileau, who knew him intimately, happily characterised Molière as le Contemplateur.
I am not the first who has dared to approach you in the Shades; for just after your own death the author of 'Les Dialogues des Morts' gave you Paracelsus as a companion, and the author of 'Le Jugement de Pluton' made the 'mighty warder' decide that 'Moliere should not talk philosophy. These writers, like most of us, feel that, after all, the comedies of the Contemplateur, of the translator of Lucretius, are a philosophy of life in themselves, and that in them we read the lessons of human experience writ small and clear.
Solemn, or gay, or satirical, he sometimes appears in agony, but often scorns to make its "trifles light as air," only ridiculous as a source of consolation. Was Le Contemplateur comic in his melancholy, or melancholy in his comic humour? The truth is, that the poet himself had to pass through those painful stages which he has dramatised.
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