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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 (French pronunciation: [lise pjɛʁ kɔʁnɛj]; also known as the Lycée Corneille) is a state secondary school located in the city...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • the Minions franchise Pierre Conner, American mathematician Pierre Corneille, (1606–1684) French playwright known for Le Cid Pierre Corréia, French rugby...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • (play) – Pierre du Ryer 1639 Argalus and Parthenia (play) – Henry Glapthorne The City Match – Jasper Mayne 1640 Horace (play) – Pierre Corneille The Bay...
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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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  • but after the production of the Cid (1636) he became an imitator of Pierre Corneille; this was the period when he produced his masterpiece Scévole, probably...
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    Dictionnaire des Arts et des Sciences, 1694, by Thomas Corneille, younger brother of Pierre Corneille. Originally, doctors used trocars to relieve pressure...
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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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    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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    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...
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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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    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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    wrote a play called Las Mocedades del Cid, on which French playwright Pierre Corneille based one of his most famous tragicomedies, Le Cid. He was also a popular...
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