A city, Molière, and a chair

Pézenas has worked hard to stake a claim on France's famous playwright

“Say hello to Jean-Baptiste!” joked my French husband as I headed out the door to Pézenas, Hérault, Occitanie.

“Ah bon? Molière wasn’t born in Pézenas? I was convinced he was…” said my crestfallen French husband as I broke the news to him upon my return.

Molière, né Jean-Baptiste Poquelin and considered France’s greatest playwright, was born in Paris in 1…