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"Arnolphe s'apprête à épouser la jeune Agnès, sa pupille, à qui il voue une passion sans égale, et qu'il a éduquée à l'écart du monde pendant treize ans. Mais le jeune Horace est tombé amoureux d'Agnès."
"Fearful of falling victim to marital infidelity, bachelor Arnolphe schemes to marry his guileless young ward, Agnès, whom he has had raised in a convent specifically to be his model wife. However, his naïve plan is spoiled when Agnès runs away with Horace--a fact that Arnolphe learns when Horace unwittingly asks him to conceal her at his home. Before Arnolphe can react, it is revealed that Agnès wealthy father has formally arranged her marriage to Horace, dashing his hopes forever."
"Le vieux baron Arnolphe, tient recluse sa pupille, Agnès, qu'il veut épouser. En rentrant de voyage, il rencontre le fils de son meilleur ami qui lui apprend qu'il a séduit une jeune fille nommée Agnès. Arnolphe comprend que la naïveté d'Agnès a précisément permis au jeune homme, Horace, de s'introduire chez lui pour faire sa cour avec succès. La jeune femme fait parvenir un message à Horace, le fait pénétrer dans sa chambre et le cache même dans son armoire lorsqu'Arnolphe se présente. Pour finir, elle s'enfuit avec Horace en pleine nuit. La pièce se termine par un double coup de théâtre, le premier par lequel Horace, croyant mettre Agnès en sécurité, la confie à Arnolphe, le second assurant le dénouement en révélant la véritable identité d'Agnès, reconnaissance qui la rend à son père et à Horace, tandis qu'Arnolphe s'enfuit, la parole coupée."
"Fearful of falling victim to marital infidelity, bachelor Arnolphe schemes to marry his guileless young ward, Agnès, whom he has had raised in a convent specifically to be his model wife. However, his naïve plan is spoiled when Agnès runs away with Horace, a fact that Arnolphe learns when Horace unwittingly asks him to conceal her at his home. Before Arnolphe can react, it is revealed that Agnès' wealthy father has formally arranged her marriage to Horace, dashing Arnolphe's hopes forever."
"Fearful of falling victim to marital infidelity, bachelor Arnolphe schemes to marry his guileless young ward, Agnès, whom he has had raised in a convent specifically to be his model wife. However, his naïve plan is spoiled when Agnès runs away with Horace, a fact that Arnolphe learns when Horace unwittingly asks him to conceal her at his home. Before Arnolphe can react, it is revealed that Agnès' wealthy father has formally arranged her marriage to Horace, dashing his hopes forever."
"On the eve of his intended wedding to the young Angés (whom he has raised in isolation, according to his principles since she was 13 years old), Arnolphe is returning home after two days absence and meets Horace, his friend Oronte's son, who tells him that he has just met Agnés, whom he loves and who loves him. Arnolphe does his best to thwart the two lovers, but the marriage between Horace and Agnés is already settled by the respective fathers and Arnolphe leaves without being able to plead his cause."
"The guardian of a very young woman plans to marry her, but she falls in love with another."
"SUMMARY: "The chief personage in the piece, Arnolphe, a middle-aged rou,̌ played by Molir̈e himself, has arrived at the conclusion, after a wide experience of womankind, that the best safeguard of a wife's honor is extreme ignorance, that if she is not to befool her husband she must be a fool herself. No girl should know anything except how to sew, pray, spin and love the man to whom she is pledged. Her library should consist of only two books, the Bible and the Maxims of Marriage. Nor does he fail to reduce these theories to rigid practice. Intending to espouse his ward Agnes--Mdlle. Debrie--he has her brought up at a convent school in complete seclusion. But the young lady, with a type of intelligent simplicity, unconsciously outwits him; she bestows her affections upon the gallant Horace, and the guardian, after being made the confident of the latter, is eventually left out in the cold" http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/schoolforwives001.html"
"Le vieux baron Arnolphe, tient recluse sa pupille, Agnès, qu'il veut épouser. En rentrant de voyage, il rencontre le fils de son meilleur ami qui lui apprend qu'il a séduit une jeune fille nommée Agnès. Arnolphe comprend que la naïveté d'Agnès a précisément permis au jeune homme, Horace, de s'introduire chez lui pour faire sa cour avec succès. La jeune femme fait parvenir un message à Horace, le fait pénétrer dans sa chambre et le cache même dans son armoire lorsqu'Arnolphe se présente. Pour finir, elle s'enfuit avec Horace en pleine nuit. La pièce se termine par un double coup de théâtre."
"Le vieux baron Arnolphe, tient recluse sa pupille, Agnès, qu'il veut épouser. En rentrant de voyage, il rencontre le fils de son meilleur ami qui lui apprend qu'il a séduit une jeune fille nommé Agnès. Arnolphe comprend que la naïveté d'Agnès a précisément permis au jeune homme, Horace, de s'introduire chez lui pour faire sa cour avec succès. La jeune femme fait parvenir un message à Horace, le fait pénétrer dans sa chambre et le cache même dans son armoire lorsqu'Arnolphe se présente. Pour finir, elle s'enfuit avec Horace en pleine nuit. La pièce se termine par un double coup de théâtre."
"Arnolphe, the main protagonist, is a man of 42 years who has groomed the young Agnès since the age of 4. Arnolphe supports Agnès living in a nunnery until the age of 17, when he removes her and moves her to one of his abodes. His intention is to bring up Agnès in such a manner that she will be too ignorant to be unfaithful to him and he becomes obsessed with avoiding this fate. To this end, he tells the nuns who are instructing her from teaching her anything that might lead her astray. Right from the very first scene, Chrysalde warns Arnolphe of his downfall, but Arnolphe takes no notice. Soon Horace arrives on the scene and he and Agnès fall in love."
"On the eve of his intended wedding to the young Agnés (whom he has raised in a convent specifically to be his model wife), Arnolphe is returning home after two days absence and meets Horace, his friend Oronte's son, who tells him that he has just met Agnés, whom he loves and who loves him. Arnolphe does his best to thwart the two lovers, but the marriage between Horace and Agnés is already settled by the respective fathers and Arnolphe leaves without being able to plead his cause."