[Proofreader's Note: The scenes in Act III are misnumbered in the original, they are labeled I, II, III, VI, and VII. This has been retained in the text.] Nothing can be more unlike _The Pretentious Young Ladies_ or _Sganarelle_ than Molière's _Don Garcia of Navarre_. The Théâtre du Palais-Royal had opened on the 20th January, 1661, with _The Love-Tiff_ and _Sganarelle_, but as the young wife of Louis XIV., Maria Theresa, daughter of Philip IV., King of Spain, had only lately arrived, and as a taste for the Spanish drama appeared to spring up anew in France, Molière thought perhaps that a heroic comedy in that style might meet with some success, the more so as a company of Spanish actors ha…
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