literature. Paris did not become the acknowledged capital of French literature until the 17th century, with authors such as Boileau, Corneille, La Fontaine...
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Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe (redirect from Odéon Theatre (Paris))
France's six national theatres. It is located at 2 rue Corneille in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on the left bank of the Seine, next to the Luxembourg...
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Charles de La Rue (3 August 1643, in Paris – 27 May 1725, in Paris), known in Latin as Carolus Ruaeus, was one of the great orators of the Society of Jesus...
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Paris became the home of the new Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, and of some of France's most famous writers, including Pierre Corneille, Jean...
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Molière (category Male actors from Paris)
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 use...
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Mlle Hervé. The new troupe set up at first at the Perle dive, rue de la Perle in Paris. Some months later, it moved to Rouen where an eleventh member...
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Comédie-Française (category Theatres in Paris)
Palais-Royal complex and located at 2, Rue de Richelieu on Place André-Malraux in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The theatre has also been known as the...
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Charles Racquet (1618–1643) Jean Racquet [fr] (c. 1643–1689) Médéric Corneille [fr] (1689–1730) Guillaume-Antoine Calvière (1730–1755) René Drouart de...
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addresses in Paris: upon his arrival in September 1831 until 1836, at 27 boulevard Poissonnière, then at 38 rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, and 5 rue Tronchet...
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circulated throughout Paris, which ended their friendship. He was closed to Mairet and Scudéry, who constantly attacked Corneille. The latter wrote his...
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Corneille (1606–1684), tragedian. Guillaume Couture (1617–1701), lay missionary and diplomat Adrien Auzout (1622–1691), astronomer Thomas Corneille (1625–1709)...
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Théâtre du Marais (category Theatres in Paris)
1976. The present-day Théâtre du Marais operates at 37, rue Volta in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. The Théâtre du Marais was founded in 1634, at which...
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what is the oldest known street in Paris, rue Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois (1st arrondissement). 845 Siege of Paris — The first attack on the city by the...
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17th–18th-century French Baroque and classical style church in Paris, dedicated to Saint Roch. It is located at 284 rue Saint-Honoré, in the 1st arrondissement. The current...
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Tuileries Garden (category Gardens in Paris)
garden. Other statues by Nicolas Coustou and Guillaume Coustou the Elder, Corneille Van Clève, Sébastien Slodtz, Thomas Regnaudin and Coysevox were placed...
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Noir was in the cast, when the company presented Pierre Corneille's first play, Mélite, in Paris around 1629 to 1630. The play may have been presented at...
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Armand Carrel (category Lycée Pierre-Corneille alumni)
wealthy merchant, and he received a liberal education at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen, afterwards attending the military school at St Cyr. He had a...
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family. She was a fifth-generation descendant of the dramatist Pierre Corneille. Her parents were cousins. While Corday was a young girl, her older sister...
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famous actress from the Comédie-Française on stage to recite verse from Corneille and Racine. The public took the side of the music halls, and the law was...
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Hôtel de Rambouillet (category Hôtels particuliers in Paris)
the west side of the rue Saint-Thomas-du-Louvre, just north of Marie de Rohan's Hôtel de Chevreuse, in a former quarter of Paris (demolished during the...
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fugitives. Par Andrieux, de l'Institut National. Paris, Renouard. [À Paris, Chez Ant. Aug. Renouard, Libraire, rue St.-André-des-Arcs, n°. 42. VIII - 1800.]...
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residence in Paris at the Hôtel Pisani, later renamed Hôtel de Rambouillet, and which she restored between 1618 and 1620. It was situated rue Saint-Thomas-du-Louvre...
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documented in 1649 when she was described as a widow living in the rue Vieille-du-Temple in Paris near the Théâtre du Marais, where she is likely to have been...
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Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon (category Former buildings and structures in Paris)
the rue d'Autriche. Other sources, e.g., Félibien 1725, p. 130, refer to it as the rue de l'Autruche. For the name Hôtel de Bourbon, see the Paris maps...
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the former Hôtel de Spangen, a complex of residences built mostly by Corneille Juste Philibert Philippe, Count of Spangen, between 1775 and 1782 on the...
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end, died in Paris in January 1922. When Bouguereau arrived in Paris in March 1846, he resided at the Hotel Corneille at 5 rue Corneille. In 1855, after...
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Comte de Lautréamont (section Years in Paris)
1869 cited extensively below). At school he was fascinated by Racine and Corneille, and by the scene of the blinding in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. According...
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the Rue Rambuteau) to connect the Marais district with the markets and began construction of Les Halles, the famous central food market of Paris, finished...
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Camille Saint-Saëns (category Conservatoire de Paris alumni)
from an Haute-Marne family; their son, born in the Rue du Jardinet in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, and baptised at the nearby church of Saint-Sulpice...
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including its headquarters, known as the Théâtre des arts, and the Chapelle Corneille. It is situated next to the Métro and TEOR station Théâtre des arts. The...
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