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Pécuchet could not manage it, and got quite stranded in Celimène. Moreover, he thought the lovers very cold, the disputes a bore, and the valets intolerable Clitandre and Sganarelle as unreal as Ægistheus and Agamemnon.
Gustave Flaubert - Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life

The sham doctor, Clitandre, who has been summoned to attend Sganarelle's daughter, contents himself with feeling Sganarelle's own pulse, whereupon, relying on the sympathy there must be between father and daughter, he unhesitatingly concludes: "Your daughter is very ill!" Here we have the transition from the witty to the comical.
Henri Bergson - Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

The other, born of wholly unknown parents, was named Dorlange, which is certainly no name at all. Dorlange, Valmon, Volmar, Melcourt, are heard upon the stage and nowhere else; already they belong to a past style, and will soon rejoin Alceste, Arnolphe, Clitandre, Damis, Eraste, Philinte, and Arsinoe.
Honoré de Balzac - The Deputy of Arcis
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