Pierre Corneille (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ kɔʁnɛj]; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three...
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The Lycée Pierre-Corneille (French pronunciation: [lise pjɛʁ kɔʁnɛj]; also known as the Lycée Corneille) is a state secondary school located in the city...
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Richard Wilbur (section From Pierre Corneille)
Translation Award for the translation of The Theatre of Illusion by Pierre Corneille. In 2012 Yale University conferred an honorary Doctor of Letters on...
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Pierre Corneille Faculyn Basson (3 January 1880 – 10 February 1906) was a serial killer in Cape Colony, South Africa. Basson is also known as "The Insurance...
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Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (category Lycée Pierre-Corneille alumni)
age 99. His mother was the sister of great French dramatists Pierre and Thomas Corneille. His father, François le Bovier de Fontenelle, was a lawyer who...
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performance before the King at the Louvre. Performing a classic play by Pierre Corneille and a farce of his own, The Doctor in Love, Molière was granted the...
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Thomas Corneille (20 August 1625 – 8 December 1709) was a French lexicographer and dramatist. Born in Rouen some nineteen years after his brother Pierre, the...
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Médée (redirect from Médée (Corneille))
acts written in alexandrine verse by Pierre Corneille, first performed in 1635 at the Théâtre du Marais. Corneille was inspired by both the Seneca and...
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Alcionée, by Pierre Du Ryer Le Cid, by Pierre Corneille Cinna, by Pierre Corneille Héraclius, by Pierre Corneille Horace, by Pierre Corneille Marianne, by...
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Adrien Auzout (1622–1691), astronomer Thomas Corneille (1625–1709), dramatist, brother of Pierre Corneille. Noel Alexandre (1639–1724), theologian and...
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and Cassiopeia. Sophocles and Euripides (and in more modern times Pierre Corneille) made the episode of Perseus and Andromeda the subject of tragedies...
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Lycée Corneille may refer to: Lycée Corneille (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) Lycée Corneille (Rouen) This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges...
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Royal Air Force (RAF) Pierre Coffin, animator known for the Minions franchise Pierre Conner, American mathematician Pierre Corneille, (1606–1684) French...
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engraver, son of the above Pierre Corneille (1606–1684), French dramatist Thomas Corneille (1625–1709), French dramatist Corneille (singer), stage name of...
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Guy de Maupassant (category Lycée Pierre-Corneille alumni)
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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Jacques Rivette (redirect from Jacques Pierre Louis Rivette)
with Rivette and their grandparents. Rivette, educated at the Lycée Pierre-Corneille, said that he briefly studied literature at the university "just to...
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Karin Viard (category Lycée Pierre-Corneille alumni)
Frédéric Vivien (12 September 2009). "Lycée Pierre Corneille de Rouen - History". The Lycée Corneille of Rouen. Retrieved 24 January 2011. Wikimedia...
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Le Cid (redirect from Le Cid (Corneille))
Le Cid is a five-act French tragicomedy written by Pierre Corneille, first performed in December 1636 at the Théâtre du Marais in Paris and published the...
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Jean Rochefort (category Lycée Pierre-Corneille alumni)
Breton parents.[better source needed] He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen. Rochefort was nineteen years old when he entered the Centre...
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon (redirect from Jean-Luc Antoine Pierre Mélenchon)
moved to France in 1962. Mélenchon was then educated at the Lycée Pierre-Corneille, a state secondary school in Rouen, Normandy. He graduated in 1972...
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Eugène Delacroix (category Lycée Pierre-Corneille alumni)
Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen where he steeped himself in the classics and won awards for drawing. In 1815 he began his training with Pierre-Narcisse...
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Auxerre. He gained his secondary education in Auxerre and the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen before entering the École Polytechnique, Paris in 1801, only...
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Stichomythia (section Corneille)
An exchange in Le Cid (1.3.215–226), by Pierre Corneille, has been called "an excellent instance of Corneille's skilful handling of 'stichomythia'". Don...
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Corneille, and like El Perseo was heavily embellished with the playwrights' inventions and traditional additions. Set design for Pierre Corneille's 1650...
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Bartas (narrative), Jean-Antoine de Baïf (lyric), and Pierre de Ronsard. Later, Pierre Corneille introduced its use in comedy. It was metrically stricter...
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Marcel Duchamp (category Lycée Pierre-Corneille alumni)
Lycée Pierre-Corneille, in Rouen. Two other students in his class also became well-known artists and lasting friends: Robert Antoine Pinchon and Pierre Dumont...
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Gustave Flaubert (category Lycée Pierre-Corneille alumni)
early as eight according to some sources. He was educated at the Lycée Pierre-Corneille in Rouen, and did not leave until 1840, whereby he went to Paris to...
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Alain (philosopher) (category Lycée Pierre-Corneille alumni)
Émile-Auguste Chartier (French: [ʃaʁtje]; 3 March 1868 – 2 June 1951), commonly known as Alain ([alɛ̃]), was a French philosopher, journalist, essayist...
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Cornelian dilemma (category Pierre Corneille)
inclination and duty. The dilemma is named after French dramatist Pierre Corneille, in whose play Le Cid (1636), one of the greatest plays of the seventeenth...
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1672 Le Malade imaginaire (comedy) - 1673 Thomas Corneille (1625–1709) - brother of Pierre Corneille Timocrate (tragedy) - 1659, the longest run (80 nights)...
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