"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!"