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[wintry mango]

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[distant night]

I’ve been seeing this kind of constructions in novels

This is Molière

Normally the if clause would take imperfect

and there would be no “que”

Here both the if clause and the main clause use conditional

[tulip aurora]

I'm curious why you relate this to an if clause?

I don't think this could be compared to one at all

[distant night]

It seems like it means
If i saw them die I would care as much as I care about my friendships

I found this bit

Cependant, on peut faire la même hypothèse (exprimer la même condition ou le même regret ) sans employer Si. Dans ce cas, le verbe est au conditionnel : Je serais chercheur et je n'aurais pas fini ma thèse, je demanderais une bourse. = Si j'étais chercheur de troisième année, je demanderais…

[tulip aurora]

How I read it, essentially:
"And he detaches my soul from all friendships
And I would see brother, children, mother, and wife die
For which I would worry as much as anything else[little]"

[distant night]

That makes sense and it feels weaker than just a straight up if-then clause

[tulip aurora]

"amitiés" here seems to just mean close relationships

[distant night]

this is Orgon doing a big speech about how Tartuffe is a very devout holy man that turned him from worldly sins etc etc

[tulip aurora]

Yeah that makes sense

[distant night]

thank you for the clarifications

[tulip aurora]

Np! Very interesting to see, I should dig into literary stuff someday

Really not my strong suit but always interesting to come across