 Philaminte, the Chrysale s wife, and her daughter Armande are under the influence of a fashionable poetry which rages in a certain "bourgeois milieu" in Paris. They are overcomed by the poems of Trissotin, cynicaller than you think. Philaminte decided to marry him her daughter Henriette who is in love with Clitandre. She complains to his father but it s a clever trap imagined by her uncle Ariste which is going to reveal the truth: Trissotin is involved by the money and when Arist reads a false letter which says that Chrysale has lost his fortune, Trissotin goes away.