Deel f. 17 - Note on identification by General Meredith Read of a quotation used by Thomas Babington Macaulay

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The quotation, 'Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte pour le sot / L'honnête homme trompe s'éloigne et ne dit mot" was identified by the Chief Librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale as being from, La Coquette Corrigée, a 1756 comedy by de la Noue. It was quoted, with identification in George Otto Trevelyan's Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (1876).

See Correspondence concerning General Read's discovery of the authorship of a couplet quoted by Lord Macaulay in
his Journal of Feb. 15, 1851: Notebook 49: Box 7, No. 2, John Meredith Read Papers, A.R28, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester.