“ L’Étincelle (1879) , a brilliant one-act comedy, secured another success, and in 1881 with Le Monde où l’on s’ennuie Pailleron produced one of the most strikingly successful pieces of the period. The play ridiculed contemporary academic society, and was filled with transparent allusions to well-known people. None of his subsequent efforts achieved so great a success. Pailleron was elected to the French Academy in 1882, and died on the 20th of April 1899. ”