Moliere's parents send him to school to study law in the year 1641. Attending law school, Moliere met three other writers and formed the theater company “The Illustrious Theatre”. At the age of 40 in 1662, Molière married nineteen-year-old Armonde Bejart. The two had 3 children together. Moliere had died later at the age of 51 in 1673. Moliere had lost his mother at the age of 10. He was not very close to his father, who expected Moliere to study law. Molière decided to study theater instead, and in doing so decided to change his name (so as not to shame his father's). Moliere's birth name was Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. The name change happened because at that time in France, having an actor with the same surname as you was a great insult and putting your name on