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    Jean-Baptiste Racine (/ræˈsiːn/ rass-EEN, US also /rəˈsiːn/ rə-SEEN) (French: [ʒɑ̃ batist ʁasin]; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist...
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    Cantique de Jean Racine (Chant by Jean Racine), Op. 11, is a composition for mixed choir and piano or organ by Gabriel Fauré. The text, "Verbe égal au...
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  • Jean Racine (1639–1699) was a French dramatist. Jean Racine may also refer to: Jean-François Racine (born 1982), ice hockey goaltender Jean-Paul Racine...
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    Phèdre (redirect from Phaedra (Racine))
    alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677 at the theatre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris. With Phèdre, Racine chose once more a subject...
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  • Look up racine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jean Racine (1639–1699) was a French dramatist. Racine may also refer to: Racine (band), a band fronted...
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    specializing in the 17th century French comedies of Molière and dramas of Jean Racine. His translation of Tartuffe has become the play's standard English version...
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    inspired many modern works of art and literature, including a play by Jean Racine. Phaedra was the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë of Crete, and thus sister...
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    Jean-Racine Meissonnier (1794 – 19 August 1856), also called Meissonnier Jeune, was a French classical guitarist, musical arranger and composer, as well...
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    son and the seventh and last child of the celebrated tragic dramatist Jean Racine, he was interested in poetry from childhood but was dissuaded from trying...
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    its singular articulations in the works of Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Jean Racine, and Friedrich Schiller to the more recent naturalistic tragedy of Henrik...
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  • armies and military themes Jean-Antoine Meissonnier (1783–1857), French music publisher and composer for the guitar Jean-Racine Meissonnier (1794–1856),...
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    Racine (/rəˈsiːn, reɪ-/ rə-SEEN, ray-) is a city in and the county seat of Racine County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located on the shore of Lake...
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  • 1989—TV episode) as Judith Bajazet, by Jean Racine (director Stéphan Boublil, Studio d'Ivry, 1976) Phèdre, by Jean Racine (Antoine Bourseiller, Théâtre Récamier...
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    Andromaque is a tragedy in five acts by the French playwright Jean Racine written in alexandrine verse. It was first performed on 17 November 1667 before...
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    writers including Vergier, Arnauld, Pierre Nicole, Blaise Pascal, and Jean Racine. Jansenism was opposed by many within the Catholic hierarchy, especially...
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  • present day). 1664 La Thébaïde (play) – Jean Racine 1665 Alexandre le Grand (Alexander the Great) (play) – Jean Racine Memoires of François Bassompierre (posthumous)...
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    literature encompasses far more than just the classicist masterpieces of Jean Racine and Madame de La Fayette. In Renaissance France, literature (in the broadest...
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    included Blaise Pascal and Jean Racine. The French philosopher Lucien Goldmann would title a 1964 book on Pascal and Racine, The Hidden God: A Study of...
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    courted, in vain, by Pierre Corneille and later became the lover of Jean Racine. Racine offered Molière his tragedy Théagène et Chariclée (one of the early...
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    school, including a premier prix in composition for the Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11, the earliest of his choral works to enter the regular repertory...
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  • (b. 1607) 1668 – Jan Boeckhorst, Flemish painter (b. c. 1604) 1699 – Jean Racine, French playwright and poet (b. 1639) 1719 – Philippe de La Hire, French...
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    Bérénice (category Plays by Jean Racine)
    Bérénice) is a five-act tragedy by the French 17th-century playwright Jean Racine. Berenice was not played often between the 17th and the 20th centuries...
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    Molière, poet Jean de La Fontaine, playwright Jean Racine, playwright Pierre Corneille, writer Charles Perrault, composers Henri Dumont, Jean-Baptiste Lully...
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  • La Thébaïde (category Plays by Jean Racine)
    in five acts (with respectively 6, 4, 6, 3 and 6 scenes) in verse by Jean Racine first presented, without much success, on June 20, 1664, at the Palais-Royal...
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    Retrieved 12 May 2021. L'homme est un "p'tit gars" des Fins, fidèle à ses racines. Josette et Hubert, acteurs, metteurs en scène de la troupe finoise, l'ont...
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    of this theater school and played under the direction, among others, of Jean-Pierre Garnier and Loïc Corbery. He began his acting career in 2008 by entering...
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    turned for inspiration to Greek mythology. Jean Racine in France and Goethe in Germany revived Greek drama. Racine reworked the ancient myths – including...
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    actors, friends and artists. Writers such as La Fontaine, Moliere and Jean Racine were known to frequent a cabaret called the Mouton Blanc on rue du Vieux-Colombier...
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    honour and duty. Examples of classicist playwrights are Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine and Molière. In the period of Romanticism, Shakespeare, who conformed...
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  • Jean Prahm (formerly Jean Racine, born September 20, 1978) is an American bobsledder who competed from 1996 to 2006. She won three medals in the two-woman...
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