Their words, their turns of expression came naturally to his pen, and added a piquancy and, as it were, a kind of gloss of antique novelty to his work.

He fabricated words, too, on Greek and Latin models, with great ease, sometimes audaciously and with needless frequency.

These were for him so many means, so many elements of variety.

Sometimes he did this in mockery, as in the humorous discourse of the Limousin scholar, for which he is not a little indebted to Geoffroy Tory in the Champfleury; sometimes, on the contrary, seriously, from a habit acquired in dealing with classical tongues.
Again, another reason of the richness of his vocabulary was that he invented and forged words for himself.

Following the example of Aristophanes, he coined an enormous number of interminable words, droll expressions, sudden and surprising constructions.