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Jourdain
(Monsieur), in Molière's comedy of Le Bourgeis
Gentithomme. He represents a bourgeois placed by wealth in the
ranks of gentlemen, and making himself extremely ridiculous by his
endeavours to acquire their accomplishments.
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