Émile Augier

Guillaume Victor Émile Augier (17 September 1820 – 25 October 1889) was a French dramatist. He was the thirteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française on 31 March 1857.

L’Aventurière (1848)

 * L’amour chez les vieillards a d'étranges racines, Et trouve, comme un lierre aux fentes des ruines, Dans ces cœurs ravagés par le temps et les maux, Cent brèches où pousser ses tenaces rameaux.
 * Act I., Scene V. (translation by Fabrice).
 * From strangest roots love in old men doth grow; Like ivy on a ruin it doth show, And in these hearts laid waste by grief and time, By myriad clefts its clinging branches climb.
 * Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 86.


 * La vérité sort mieux d’un tonneau que d'un puits.
 * Act II, Scene IV. — (translation by Annibal).
 * Truth in a hogshead hides, not in a well.
 * Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 119.


 * La patrie est aux lieux où l’on a des amis.
 * Act III., Scene III. — (translation by Monte-Prade).
 * Where we have friends, there is our fatherland.
 * Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 112.