[132] See especially Nanine, founded on the original Paméla.
[133] Le Philosophe sans le savoir; La Gageure imprévue.
[134] e.g. Eugénie (the original of Goethe’s Clavigo) and Les Deux Amis, or Le Négociant de Lyon.
[135] Richard Cœur de Lion, &c.
[136] Zémire et Azor; Jeannot et Jeannette.
[137] Les Muses galantes; Le Devin du village.
[138] Pygmalion.
[139] Charles IX, ou l’école des rois.
[140] Hernani (1839); Le Roi s’amuse; Ruy Blas; Les Burgraves, &c. Even in Torquemada, the fruit of its author’s old age, and full of bombast, the original power has not altogether gone out.
[141] Chatterton.