Crossword-Solution: JART 4 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Thus, in the Miser (_l'Avare_) Act I, Scene 3, he alludes to the lameness of the actor Béjart, "_Je ne me plais point a voir ce chien de boiteux-la_." "I do not like to see that lame dog;" in the Citizen who apes the Nobleman (_le Bourgeois gentilhomme_), Act iii.

While he is yet speaking, twenty jets of water spring into the air,--a huge rock in the foreground changes into a shell,--the shell opens,--forth steps a Naiad (pretty Mademoiselle Béjart, a well-known actress,--too well known for Moliere's domestic comfort) and declaims verses written by Pellisson for the occasion.

Next February (1662) Molière, aged forty, was married to the actress Armande Béjart, whose age was half his own--a disastrous union, which caused him inexpressible anxiety and unhappiness.

The son of a _valet-de-chambre tapissier_ of Louis XIII, he succeeded in due course to the emoluments and honors, such as they were, of his father; but he had early conceived a passion for the stage, and in 1643 he attached himself to the Illustre Théâtre of Madeleine Béjart, a woman four years his senior.

There were now four ladies, Madeleine Béjart, Geneviève Béjart, Duparc, and Debrie; the two brothers Béjart--the youngest, Louis, had joined at Lyons--Duparc, Debrie, Dufresne, and Croisac making, with Molière himself, eleven persons.