Now, the first of these laws is the equipoise of functions; that is, the equality of associates.
5.

M.Wolowski indulges in sarcasm against the petitioners for literary property.

"There are authors," he says, "who crave the privileges of authors, and who for that purpose point out the power of the melodrama.
They speak of the niece of Corneille, begging at the door of a theatre which the works of her uncle had enriched....

To satisfy the avarice of literary people, it would be necessary to create literary majorats, and make a whole code of exceptions." I like this virtuous irony.

But M.Wolowski has by no means exhausted the difficulties which the question involves.