Crossword-Solution: TARTUFE 7 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Pecksniff--a being so utterly different from Tartufe, and perhaps impossible to be understood save by Englishmen themselves.

Tartufe is by conviction an atheist and a sensualist; he despises all who regard life from the contrasted point of view.

When the Jesuits and Jansenists of your time saw, each of them, in Tartufe the portrait of their rivals (as each of the laughable Marquises in your play conceived that you were girding at his neighbour), you all the while were mocking every credulous excess of Faith.

Tired of the flashy luxury of the Empire, his memory goes back to his youth-- "Lorsque la levre de l'aurore Baisait nos yeux souleves, Et que nous n'etions pas encore La France des petits creves." The poem "Et Tartufe" prolongs the note of a satire always popular in France--the satire of Scarron, Moliere, La Bruyere, against the clerical curse of the nation.

Every penance appeared too easy, and he added to those enjoined by his directors continual mortifications of his own devising, so that even Tartufe himself would have owned his superiority.