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Excerpt from Molière Among the many great names which make French lit erature illustrious, there is scarcely one which is so uni versally acknowledged and of such national importance as that of Moliere. The graver poets, of whose works Frenchmen are proud, and whose names stand first on the register of fame, do not wake the same warmth of interest and sympathy which make Moliere always liv ing, always popular, the familiar friend as well as the im mortal writer - dear to his countrymen, with no solemnity of classical fame alone, but with the warmth almost of personal contact. We are naturally jealous of placing any but the greatest on the same elevation with Shakespeare, and even the most warm enthusiast in France would scarcely venture to claim for her great comedian a place by the side of the sovran poet, to whom all regions of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.