• Thumbnail for Pierre Corneille
    Pierre Corneille (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ kɔʁnɛj]; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three...
    21 KB (2,518 words) - 02:33, 4 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lycée Pierre-Corneille
    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...
    9 KB (819 words) - 10:20, 3 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richard Wilbur
    Translation Award for the translation of The Theatre of Illusion by Pierre Corneille. In 2012 Yale University conferred an honorary Doctor of Letters on...
    26 KB (2,116 words) - 00:01, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    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...
    16 KB (1,942 words) - 14:09, 13 March 2024
  • 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...
    5 KB (611 words) - 20:45, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Le Cid
    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...
    16 KB (2,241 words) - 12:15, 22 December 2023
  • 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...
    2 KB (181 words) - 23:30, 4 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Molière
    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...
    45 KB (5,910 words) - 16:04, 26 April 2024
  • Jonkvrouw Marie-Pierre Brigitte Olivier Corneille[citation needed] Verhaegen, countess Bernard d'Udekem d'Acoz, born 20 April 1966 is a Belgian historian...
    3 KB (293 words) - 19:28, 1 July 2023
  • Alcionée, by Pierre Du Ryer Le Cid, by Pierre Corneille Cinna, by Pierre Corneille Héraclius, by Pierre Corneille Horace, by Pierre Corneille Marianne, by...
    14 KB (531 words) - 02:24, 29 April 2020
  • Lycée Corneille may refer to: Lycée Corneille (La Celle-Saint-Cloud) Lycée Corneille (Rouen) This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges...
    151 bytes (54 words) - 17:40, 6 March 2019
  • Thumbnail for Thomas Corneille
    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...
    10 KB (1,166 words) - 13:30, 19 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Rouen
    Adrien Auzout (1622–1691), astronomer Thomas Corneille (1625–1709), dramatist, brother of Pierre Corneille. Noel Alexandre (1639–1724), theologian and...
    41 KB (3,784 words) - 18:34, 29 April 2024
  • engraver, son of the above Pierre Corneille (1606–1684), French dramatist Thomas Corneille (1625–1709), French dramatist Corneille (singer), stage name of...
    1 KB (188 words) - 05:58, 6 March 2024
  • Royal Air Force (RAF) Pierre Coffin, animator known for the Minions franchise Pierre Conner, American mathematician Pierre Corneille, (1606 - 1684) French...
    10 KB (1,114 words) - 23:40, 19 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Perseus
    and Cassiopeia. Sophocles and Euripides (and in more modern times Pierre Corneille) made the episode of Perseus and Andromeda the subject of tragedies...
    36 KB (3,721 words) - 23:24, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gustave Flaubert
    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...
    29 KB (3,458 words) - 18:08, 30 April 2024
  • 1672 Le Malade imaginaire (comedy) - 1673 Thomas Corneille (1625–1709) - brother of Pierre Corneille Timocrate (tragedy) - 1659, the longest run (80 nights)...
    48 KB (6,865 words) - 21:36, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pierre Louis Dulong
    Auxerre. He gained his secondary education in Auxerre and the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen before entering the École Polytechnique, Paris in 1801, only...
    11 KB (1,273 words) - 11:08, 29 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for French alexandrine
    Bartas (narrative), Jean-Antoine de Baïf (lyric), and Pierre de Ronsard. Later, Pierre Corneille introduced its use in comedy. It was metrically stricter...
    17 KB (1,607 words) - 21:08, 22 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for 17th-century French literature
    Femmes savantes 1672 Le Malade imaginaire 1673 Thomas Corneille (1625–1709, brother of Pierre Corneille) Timocrate (tragedy) 1659, with the longest run (80...
    64 KB (9,279 words) - 02:16, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marcel Duchamp
    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...
    88 KB (10,329 words) - 17:30, 14 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Andromeda (mythology)
    Corneille, and like El Perseo was heavily embellished with the playwrights' inventions and traditional additions. Set design for Pierre Corneille's 1650...
    69 KB (6,673 words) - 13:05, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jean Rochefort
    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...
    26 KB (1,532 words) - 07:34, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eugène Delacroix
    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...
    40 KB (4,638 words) - 22:38, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Karin Viard
    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...
    13 KB (182 words) - 03:16, 2 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Trocar
    Dictionnaire des Arts et des Sciences, 1694, by Thomas Corneille, younger brother of Pierre Corneille. Originally, doctors used trocars to relieve pressure...
    10 KB (1,159 words) - 20:19, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Claude Chappe
    Claude Chappe (category Lycée Pierre-Corneille alumni)
    sinecure during the French Revolution. He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen. His uncle was the astronomer Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche...
    10 KB (1,094 words) - 20:08, 19 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Guy de Maupassant
    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...
    27 KB (2,993 words) - 18:49, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Baroque
    Gryphius, who used the Jesuit model of the Dutch Joost van den Vondel and Pierre Corneille. There was also Johannes Velten who combined the traditions of the...
    140 KB (16,949 words) - 23:49, 1 May 2024