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Facts

Born c.1540 • France
Died c.1607 • France
Notable Works “De l’art de la tragédie” • “Saül le Furieux”
Subjects Of Study Neoclassical art • tragedy
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Pierre Corneille
French poet and dramatist
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Népomucène Lemercier
French author
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Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin
French author
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Jacques Grévin
French author
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
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Johann Christoph Gottsched
German literary critic
Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.
Voltaire
French philosopher and author
French dramatist Jean Racine
Jean Racine
French dramatist
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Marivaux, Pierre
Pierre Marivaux
French author
Romains
Jules Romains
French author
Antonin Artaud as Jean Massieu
Antonin Artaud
French author and actor
Aubignac, engraving, 1673
François Hédelin, abbé d’Aubignac
French dramatist and critic
Gresset, oil painting by Louis Tocqué; in the Château de Versailles
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
French author
Louis-Sébastien Mercier
Louis-Sébastien Mercier
French author
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Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, seigneur de Saint-Évremond
French author
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Étienne Jodelle
French author
Catulle Mendès.
Catulle Mendès
French author
Marmontel, detail of an engraving by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 1765, after a portrait by C.N. Cochin
Jean-François Marmontel
French author
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Marc-Antoine de Muret
French author

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