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Pierre Corneille
Detail from a portrait by Charles Le Brun
Born
6 June 1606 Rouen, Normandy, France
Died
1 October 1684 (aged 78) Paris, France
Resting place
Saint-Roch, Paris
Occupation
Playwright
Nationality
French
Genre
Tragedy, comedy
Literary movement
Classicism
Notable works
Le Cid
Spouse
Marie de Lampérière
Relatives
Thomas Corneille
Pierre Corneille (French pronunciation:[pjɛʁkɔʁnɛj]; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.
As a young man, he earned the valuable patronage of Cardinal Richelieu, who was trying to promote classical tragedy along formal lines, but later quarrelled with him, especially over his best-known play, Le Cid, about a medieval Spanish warrior, which was denounced by the newly formed Académie française for breaching the unities. He continued to write well-received tragedies for nearly forty years.
Coat of arms of the Corneille family, which dates back to 1637
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Breton parents.[better source needed] He was educated at the Lycée PierreCorneille in Rouen. Rochefort was nineteen years old when he entered the Centre...
Bartas (narrative), Jean-Antoine de Baïf (lyric), and Pierre de Ronsard. Later, PierreCorneille introduced its use in comedy. It was metrically stricter...
insistence of his mother. Next year, in autumn, he was sent to the Lycée Pierre-Corneille in Rouen where he proved a good scholar, indulging in poetry and taking...
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and Cassiopeia. Sophocles and Euripides (and in more modern times PierreCorneille) made the episode of Perseus and Andromeda the subject of tragedies...
Auxerre. He gained his secondary education in Auxerre and the Lycée PierreCorneille in Rouen before entering the École Polytechnique, Paris in 1801, only...
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