Laboratoire de Biochimie et Biologie Moléculaire, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Nouvel Hôpital Civil, 1 place de l’hôpital, 67091 Strasbourg Cedex, France, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC)/CNRS UMR 7104/ INSERM U 964/Université de Strasbourg, 1 rue Laurent Fries, 67404 Illkirch, France, Institut Clinique de la Souris, 1 rue Laurent Fries, 67404 Ill...

Où trouvera-ton un poète qui ait possédé à la fois tant de grands talents (…) capable néanmoins de s'abaisser, quand il le veut, et de descendre jusqu'aux plus simples naïvetés du comique, où il est encore inimitable. In December 2001, the Journal of Quantitative Linguistics published an article by Cyril Labbé and me (see bibliographical references at the end of this note, before appendixes). T...

Of Moliere's thirty six plays, seven deal, to a greater or lesser extent, with medicine; the medicine as practiced in Paris during the reign of Louis XIV. In these days, Moliere satirises the recalcitrant conservatism of the Paris medical faculty. It is, however, an informed satirisation. This paper explores Moliere's motives and attempts to place Moliere's medical plays against a broad canvas ...

Best known as a caricaturist who skewered the politicians and social mores of nineteenth-century France, Honoré Daumier also had deep abiding engagement with seventeenth-century playwright Molière. This article examines Daumier’s paintings Molière’s plays Le Malade imaginaire (1673) Les Fourberies de Scapin (1671), initiated shortly after was fired from thirty-year position working for illustra...

In the 2001, Volume 8, Number 3, issue of the Journal of Quantitative Linguistics (pp. 213 – 231) M. M. Dominique and Cyril Labbé published a paper entitled “Inter-Textual Distance and Authorship Attribution. Corneille and Molière”. Dominique and Cyril Labbé (hereafter referred to as DCL) propose a new formula for the computation of dissimilarity between texts, as well as a distances scale. The...