M. Jourdain is a cloth merchant who wants to become a gentleman, learning dance, music, fencing and philosophy. Mme Jourdain is worried about Dorante's expenses and prefers her daughter Lucile to marry Cléonte. The two young men's servants use subterfuge to get M. Jourdain to accept Cléonte as son-in-law. They fake the arrival of the Grand Turk's son in Paris, and, in an Oriental ballet, confer upon M. Jourdain the title of Mammamouchi, his daughter marrying the son of the Grand Turk, who is none other than Cléonte in disguise.
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Jean Meyer
Covielle, Cléonte's valet
Louis Seigner
Monsieur Jourdain, bourgeois
Robert Manuel
the music master
Georges Chamarat
the master of philosophy
Jean Piat
Cléonte, in love with Lucile
Georges Descrières
Dorante, count, lover of Dorimene
Jacques Eyser
the fencing master
Jacques Charon
the dancing master
Andrée de Chauveron
Madame Jourdain
Micheline Boudet
Nicole, servant
Marie Sabouret
Dorimène, marquise
Michèle Grellier
Lucile, daughter of M. Jourdain
Jean-Louis Jemma
The master tailor
Henri Tisot
A tailor boy
René Camoin
First lackey
