Crossword-Solution: CORNEILLE 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

One of these gave rise to a pun which is so excellent that it is impossible to resist the temptation of transferring the anecdote from those pages to these:-- ``In the Rue Richelieu there is a statue of Corneille holding a roll in his hand, on which are inscribed the titles of his principal works.

Rotrou, the acknowledged master of Corneille, hurried his poetical effusions in order to raise money for gambling.

The Regent, to his credit, was proof against all their solicitations, and replied to their last argument in the words of Corneille,-- "Le crime fait la honte, et non pas l'echafaud:" adding, that whatever shame there might be in the punishment he would very willingly share with the other relatives.

Corneille has represented the pride of Attila to his subject kings, and his tragedy opens with these two ridiculous lines:— Ils ne sont pas venus, nos deux rois! qu’on leur die Qu’ils se font trop attendre, et qu’Attila s’ennuie.

The Spanish stage is richer in such Comedies as that which furnished the idea of the Menteur to Corneille.