Crossword-Solution: LAFLEUR 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Merely to see him would have been enough to tell you that Beaumarchais’ _Figaro_, Moliere’s _Mascarille_, Marivaux’s _Frontin_, and Dancourt’s _Lafleur_--those great representatives of audacious swindling, of cunning driven to bay, of stratagem rising again from the ends of its broken wires--were all quite second-rate by comparison with this giant of cleverness and meanness.

Roland chose a young man called Couderc de Mazel-Rozade, who had assumed the name of Lafleur, as his lieutenant, and the rebel forces were not only quickly reorganised, but made complete by the addition of a hundred men raised by the new lieutenant, and soon gave a sign that they were again on the war-path by burning down the churches of Bousquet, Cassagnas, and Prunet.

There was Lulli in music; Beauchamp in ballets; Corneille and Racine in tragedy; Moliere in comedy; La Chamelle and La Beauval, actresses; and Baron, Lafleur, Toriliere, and Guerin, actors.

Thus, John Garret, a Dutchman, is probably Jan Gerard, and James Flower, a milliner, born in Rouen, is certainly Jaques Fleur, or Lafleur.

Immediately after breakfast Provost and Lafleur went across the river in search of Antelopes, and we remained looking at the Indians, all Assiniboins, and very dirty.