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Pierre Corneille

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Noun1.Pierre Corneille - French tragic dramatist whose plays treat grand moral themes in elegant verse (1606-1684)Pierre Corneille - French tragic dramatist whose plays treat grand moral themes in elegant verse (1606-1684)
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INTRODUCTION: CORNEILLE'S MELITE Pierre Corneille (1606-84) began his career as a playwright in 1629, with a tremendous hit.
Money and merit in French Renaissance comedy by Parsons, Jotham / Renaissance Quarterly
Among those writers are Pierre Corneille, Blaise Pascal, Nicolas Boileau, and Montaigne.
Sublime worlds; early modern French literature by Reference & Research Book News
Fumaroli sees Pierre Corneille, at least up to his Oedipe in 1661, as harking back to a more aristocratic, and therefore less ordered state, allowing more freedom to its intellectuals and writers.
Mark Fumaroli. The Poet and the King: Jean de la Fontaine and His ... by Benson, Edward / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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