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GUESTS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 
 OF ARTS AND LETTERS 
 
 The French Ambassador 
 
 M. Maurice Donnay 
 
 Directeur de 1' Academic Franjaise 
 
 M. Andre Chevrillon 
 
 Chancelier de 1' Academic Fran^aisc 
 
 Le Marechal Joffre 
 
 del' Academic Fran^aisc 
 
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SPEAKERS 
 
 Mr. Brander Matthews 
 
 Chancellor of the Academy, presiding 
 
 M. Maurice Donnay 
 
 Directeur de 1' Academic Fran^aise 
 
 M. Andre Chevrillon 
 
 Chancelier de 1' Academic Fran^aise 
 
 A reading of The Impromptu of Versailles, 
 a one-act play produced by Moliere at the 
 command of Louis XIV in 1 663, translated 
 by Henri Van Laun, and condensed for this 
 occasion by 
 
 Mr. Augustus Thomas 
 
 Member of the Academy 
 
MOLIERE 
 
 He was the first great modern. In his art 
 
 The very times their very manners show; 
 
 But for he truly drew the human heart 
 
 In his true page all times themselves shall know. 
 
 Richard Watson Gilder 
 
 Mon Dieu! des moeurs du temps mettons-nous moins en peine, 
 Et faisons un peu grace a la nature humaine ; 
 Ne I'examinons point dans la grande rigueur, 
 Et voyons ses defauts avec quelque douceur. 
 
 Le Misanthrope, Acte I, Scene i 
 
Cornell University Library 
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 In honor of the three-hundredth annivers 
 
 3 1924 027 226 541 ..,.,,. 
 

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