Molière's friendship with Jean-Baptiste Lully influences him…

Molière's friendship with Jean-Baptiste Lully influences him towards writing his Le Mariage forcé and La Princesse d'Élide (subtitled as Comédie galante mêlée de musique et d'entrées de ballet), written for royal "divertissements" at Versailles.

Tartuffe, ou L'Imposteur is also performed at Versailles, in 1664, and creates the greatest scandal of Molière's artistic career.

Its depiction of the hypocrisy of the dominant classes is taken as an outrage and violently contested.

It also arouses the wrath of the Jansenists and the play is banned.