Les Femmes savantes is a verse comedy about a middle-class Parisian family caught up in a craze for learning and fashionable literary taste. Philaminte, her sister-in-law and her elder daughter devote themselves to poets, grammar and philosophy, and neglect their household. The younger daughter, Henriette, wants to marry the man she loves, but her mother has other plans involving a pompous scholar. Her father is left struggling to restore common sense. The play satirises pedantry and affectation rather than learning itself. This entry appears to be a 2012 edition of the French text.