In my biography of Samuel Chappuzeau (Who's he, you may say, but an ancestor of mine) you can read how Moliere 'borrowed' words from Samuel and also from Cyrano de Bergerac. Nothing new, this was known over 200 years ago.

Moliere is of course revered by the French, in the same way that we (Brits) revere Shakespeare.


http://mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=8608&pc=9