Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

If this is dying, I don't think much of it.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.