The Health minister's department, we are told, is in something of a downsizing phase, during which the stages of man will be somewhat arbitrarily reduced to three from the seven made fashionable by the late William Shakespeare in his stylish piece that ranges from mewling and puking infancy to " second childishness, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything" .
Le ministère de la Santé, nous dit-on, ramènera assez arbitrairement à trois les sept âges de la vie que, dans sa pièce, le regretté William Shakespeare a décrits avec élégance comme allant du bébé pleurant et bavant à la «seconde enfance [.] sans yeux, sans dents, sans goût, sans rien».
