Englishmen have always loved Moliere.
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
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.
The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.
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