"I cannot take human beings seriously. They seem to me to have been created solely to amuse those who regard them in a certain way." "We love these tremendous farces of a formidable joviality and an absurd comic spirit... They constitute an original, spontaneous and profoundly French art." "The characters of Labiche, like those of classic comedy, are men of forever, as well as the permanent...
Eug ne Labiche
Th ophile Gautier