The Magnificent Lovers

The Magnificent Lovers(French:Les Amants magnifiques) is a comedy-ballet of Molière , composed and represented at the carnival in February 1670 , during festivities named Royal Entertainment . It was during this performance that Louis XIV up for the last time on stage as a dancer. Behind the fun of a sentimental and romantic plot - two rival princes compete a young princess who loves a soldier of fortune, without nobility, but not without glory, which saves a wild boar and is thus allowed to marry the he loves - Molière is the trial of astrology thanks to the character of Anaxarchus, astrologer charlatan. This performance, writes G. Couton, giving a lesson due to a court and a civilization that had great need.