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    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 (also known as the Lycée Corneille) is a state secondary school located in the city of Rouen, France. Originally founded by...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Adrien Auzout (1622–1691), astronomer Thomas Corneille (1625–1709), dramatist, brother of Pierre Corneille. Noel Alexandre (1639–1724), theologian and...
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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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  • Pierre Corneille Faculyn Basson (3 January 1880 – 22 January 1906) was a serial killer in Cape Colony, South Africa. Basson is also known as "The Insurance...
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  • Médée (redirect from Médée (Corneille))
    is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Pierre Corneille in 1635. The heroine of the play is the sorceress Médée. After Médée...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Femmes savantes 1672 Le Malade imaginaire 1673 Thomas Corneille (1625–1709, brother of Pierre Corneille) Timocrate (tragedy) 1659, with the longest run (80...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Euripides, but especially the Antigone of Jean Rotrou and the tragedies of Pierre Corneille. This ancient Theban drama attracted great interest among 17th century...
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