miser

His best-known works include Tirena, Grižula, Venus and Adonis, The Story of Stanac, The Miser, Hecuba and Uncle Maroje.
Les plus connues sont : Tyrrhène, Grižula, Plaisanterie sur Stanac, Venus et Adonis, l'Avare, Hécube et Oncle Maroïe.
Late in life the miser learned to be generous with money.
À la fin de sa vie l'avare apprit à être généreux.
A little monster peeping out from under the bed-curtains tempts the miser with a bag of gold, while an angel kneeling at the right encourages him to acknowledge the crucifix in the window.
Un petit monstre sortant de sous les tentures du lit tente l’avare avec un sac d’or, alors qu’un ange agenouillé à droite l’encourage à regarder le crucifix sur la fenêtre.
Other works are free adaptation of Molière (Tartuffe, Tricks of Scapin, The Miser, and The Doctor in Spite of Himself) with some scenes cut and wordplay and tomfoolery enhanced.
D’autres sont des traductions libres de Molière (Le Tartuffe, Les Fourberies de Scapin, L’Avare, Le Médecin malgré lui) amputées de certaines scènes et agrémentées de calembours et pitreries
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