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The old skinflint Harpagon has decided it's time
to marry off his children. He's found an old man who won't demand
a dowry for his daughter, Élise, and a rich widow for his
son, Cléante. But Élise is already in love with Harpagon's
servant, Valère. And Cléante, who spends money as
passionately as his father hoards it, is enamoured of the penniless
Mariane. Harpagon, however, has already decided to take Mariane
for his own wife. Convinced his children are plotting to rob him
blind, he proceeds with his own arrangements until, to his horror,
he discovers that the fortune he buried in his garden has been stolen.
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