Who is Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ kɔʁnɛj]; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.As a young man, he earned the valuable patrionate 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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Corneille was born in Rouen, Normandy, France, to Marthe Le Pesant and Pierre Corne...
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- Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!
- Every man of courage is a man of his word.
- He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
- To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
- Each instant of life is a step toward death.
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