"Benoist,
"Bien sot."
Now, the first is only true in France, where true liberty was never understood: and the second is true nowhere. Benoist is merely a vulgar name, and the adoption of it does not necessarily imply that the bearer is a "sot." M. De Pixérécourt might have quoted some better samples; the famous one, for instance, on the assassin of Henri III.:—
"Frère Jacques Clement,
"C'es l'enfer qui m'a créé."
Or the following Latin anagrams on the names of two of his most distinguished countrymen:—
"De la Monnoi,
"A Delio nomen."
"Voltaire,
"O alte vir!"