Monsieur Jourdain, the wealthy merchant, is prepared to suffer any indignity provided it is inflicted by someone of high enough quality, and he regards it as an honour to lend money, which he knows will never be paid back when the borrower claims to be on speaking terms with the King.
He refuses to allow his daughter to marry except into the nobility, and he makes himself so ridiculous that he becomes a laughing stock. In the end he is made the victim of a practical joke, as the result of which he unwittingly takes part in the marriage of his daughter to the man of her choice, while he himself is ennobled to a fictitious dignity in a most undignified manner.
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