Historians differ as to whether his father or the lover of a member of his troupe paid his debts; either way, after a 24-hour stint in prison he returned to the acting circuit.
Povjesničari dvoje da li je njegov otac ili ljubavnik jedne od članica skupine platio dugove, jer se Molière nakon 24 sata provedena u zatvoru vratio u glumačke krugove.