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Excerpt from Eloges Academiques
Le moindres de ces noms ont eu leur jour d'eclat, et j'ai la juste fierte de les declarer tous dignes de reconnaissance et de respect. Les successeurs de Fontenelle ont assoupli la langue de la science et, sans changer les mots, salue les idees nouvelles. Leur predecesseur, Duhamel, admirait les anciens, imitait leur style et louait les modernes en latin. On l'en estimait davantage. Langue vivante alors, immortelle peut - etre, entre les esprits cultives, clef universelle de toute science, le latin etait, au juge ment des doctes, un signe de ralliement et d'honneur sans lequel c'etait honte de se dire savant.
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