Nothing is wanting to his fame, he was wanting to our own.

Rien ne manque à sa gloire, il manquait à la nôtre.

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Inscription written beneath the bust of Molière, when, in 1773, a hundred years after his death, it was placed in the Academy to which in his lifetime he was refused admission.

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