Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (French pronunciation: [lə buʁʒwa ʒɑ̃tijɔm], variously translated as The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Middle-Class Aristocrat or The Would-Be Noble) is a five-act comédie-ballet — a play with music, dance and singing — first performed on 14 October 1670 for the court of Louis XIV at the Château of Chambord.

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