With Olivier Martin-Salvan, Nicolas Vial, Louise Moaty, Benjamin Lazar. Then Cléonte, with the assistance of his valet Covielle and Mme Jourdain, disguises himself and presents himself to Jourdain as the son of the Sultan of Turkey. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/257213.Le_Bourgeois_Gentilhomme George Balanchine choreographed a number of modern versions, from the 1930s to the 1970s, using Strauss's score. Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (French pronunciation: , The Bourgeois Gentleman or The Middle-Class Aristocrat or The Would-Be Noble) is a five-act comédie-ballet—a play intermingled with music, dance and singing—by Molière, first presented on 14 October 1670 before the court of Louis XIV at the Château of Chambord by Molière's troupe of actors. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Act II Summary & Analysis. Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. | Books › Literature & Fiction Share