Alceste hates all of humanity, denounces its hypocrisy, cowardice and compromise. But he nevertheless loves Célimène, flirtatious and slanderous. The virtuous thus launches into battles lost in advance which force him to flee.
Célimène
Arsinoe
Éliante
Basque
Un valet
Un garde
Alceste
Philinte
Oronte
Dubois
Clitandre
Acaste