Pierre Corneille Writer
Pierre Corneille (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ kɔʁnɛj]; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian, and one of the three great seventeenth-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.
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External resources
- http://athena.unige.ch/athena/corneille/corneille_le_cid.html
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed-french?id=CorCinn&images=images/modeng&data=/lv1/Archive/french-parsed&tag=public
- http://www.biblioweb.org/-CORNEILLE-Pierre-.html
- http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc57.html
- http://www.leaderu.com/cyber/books/imitation/imitation.html
- http://www.monologuearchive.com/c/corneille_pierre.html