Crossword-Solution: SARDOU 6 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

There seems a certain poetical justice in the fact that Alexandre Dumas _fils_ and Victorien Sardou, the two giants of modern drama, should have divided between them the inheritance of Louis XIV., its greatest patron.

Good luck has placed in Sardou’s hands an old map of the gardens as they existed in the time of Louis XV., and several prints of the château dating from about the same epoch have found their way into his portfolios.

That the blood of an antiquarian runs in Sardou’s veins is evident in the subdued excitement with which he shows you his possessions—statues from Versailles, forged gates and balconies from Saint Cloud, the carved and gilded wood-work for a dozen rooms culled from the four corners of France.

Years ago Sardou befriended a young stone mason, who through this timely aid prospered, and, becoming later a rich builder, received in 1882 from the city of Paris the contract to tear down the burned ruins of the Tuileries.

Our conversation, as was fated, soon turned to the enormous success of _Robespierre_ in London—a triumph that even Sardou’s many brilliant victories had not yet equalled.