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Claude Deschamps (c. 1600 – 1681), better known as de Villiers, was a French playwright and actor. His 1660
tragicomedy Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragedy, tragic and comedy, comic forms. Most often seen in drama, dramatic literature, the term can describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the ov ...
, ''Le Festin de pierre ou le Fils criminel'', was a forerunner of
Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, ; ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world liter ...
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Dom Juan ''Dom Juan ou le Festin de Pierre'' ("Don Juan or The Feast of Stone") is a five-act 1665 comedy by Molière based upon the Spanish legend of Don Juan, Don Juan Tenorio. The aristocrat Dom Juan is a Rake (stock character), rake who seduces, marri ...
''. He also wrote
burlesque A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.
comedies ''L'Apothicaire dévalisé'' (1660) and ''Les Ramoneurs'' (1662). As an actor, de Villiers often played servant roles and participated in the Théâtre du Marais and Hôtel de Bourgogne troupes.


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17th-century French male actors French male stage actors 17th-century French dramatists and playwrights 17th-century French male writers 1681 deaths Year of birth uncertain {{France-stage-actor-stub