ABSTRACT
If, as is probable, Racine returned from Uzès in the autumn of 1662, he could have witnessed the first performance of the Ecole des femmes. He was quite certainly in Paris by June 1663, the month of the Critique de l’Ecole des femmes, and he must have followed with a close and perhaps personal interest the most envenomed phase of the Comic War. By the autumn at the latest he had made the acquaintance of Molière. His first reference to his great contemporary occurs in a letter to Le Vasseur dated November 1663.
