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Title: Un dîner chez Molière, à Auteuil, 1877, engraving after the painting by Gaston Mélingue exhibited at the Salon of 1877 in: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history, Volume 7.
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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MOLIERE 59 We do not reckon it any great temptation to Moliere that the Academyshould have opened its arms to receive him, under condition that he would abandon the profession of an actor; but the reason which he assigned for declining topurchase the honor at the rate proposed is worthy of being mentioned. Whatcan induce you to hesitate? said Boileau, charged by the Academicians withthe negotiation. A point of honor, replied Moliere. Now, answered hisfriend,^ what honor can lie in blacking your face with mustachios and assumingthe burlesque disguise of a buffoon, in order to be cudgelled on a public stage ? The point of honor, answered Moliere, consists in my not deserting morethan a hundred persons, whom my personal exertions are necessary to support.The Academy afterward did honor to themselves and justice to Moliere by plac-ing his bust in their hall, with this tasteful and repentant inscription :^ Nothing is wanting to the glory of Moliere. Moliere was wanting to ours ! That Molif

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