Crossword-Solution: HORACES 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

This contains ‘Le Cid,’ ‘Les Horaces,’ ‘Le Cinna,’ ‘La Mort de Pompée,’ ‘Le Polyeucte.’ The name, ‘L’Illustre Théâtre,’ appearing at that date has an interest of its own.

There are classical comedies in verse, too, wherein the knavish valets, rakish heroes, stolid old guardians, and smart, free-spoken serving-women, discourse in Alexandrines, as loud as the Horaces or the Cid.

One of the attractions of the season was the reappearance of Rachel, ravishing all hearts by her acting of Camille in _Les Horaces_, and winning ovations of every kind up to roses dropped from the Queen's bouquet.

What would you have thought if she had stopped short in the play--it was Corneille's _Les Horaces_, you remember--because she was annoyed by the rustling of the leaves of a thousand books of the play which the audience turned over at the same moment?" The Easy Chair declined to step into the snare which was plainly set in its sight.

How much of all that has been grandest in the life of France, redeeming even its worst crimes of revolution in the love of country, has had its origin in the "Horaces" of Corneille.