In line with the Grande Dictée des Jeux, organized on Friday April 12, Le Figaro invites you to measure yourself against Mérimée's famous dictation. The whole court took part in the game, with often disappointing results...
The empress made sixty-two mistakes, Alexandre Dumas fils made twenty-four, and Emperor Napoleon III had to correct his copy seventy-five times. To make matters worse, it was the Austrian ambassador, Metternich Jr., who brilliantly won the event with only three mistakes. A good player, Dumas would have said to him: "When will you, prince, present yourself at the Academy to teach us spelling?"” '’. '. '. '. '. ', '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’,