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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...
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    years. Corneille was born in Rouen, Normandy, France, to Marthe Le Pesant and Pierre Corneille, a distinguished lawyer. His younger brother, Thomas Corneille...
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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 Rwandan–Canadian...
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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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    if it had been in a fair fight (Act 5.9.5-14). The French dramatist Thomas Corneille wrote a tragedy La Mort d'Achille (1673). Achilles is the subject of...
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    H.496 c L'inconnu (Donneau de Visé & Thomas Corneille), (lost) (1675) Le triomphe des dames (Thomas Corneille), (lost) (1676) Sérénade pour le sicilien...
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    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (category Lycée Pierre-Corneille alumni)
    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 worked...
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    Pretended Astrologer); the plot was borrowed by the French playwright Thomas Corneille for his 1651 comedy Feint Astrologue. Mars, the Bringer of War Venus...
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    Molière. The censored, verse edition Le Festin de pierre (1677) by Thomas Corneille changed the style of writing — and thus changed the intent of the play...
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    of familial authority. Ariadne: A Tragedy in Five Acts, a play by Thomas Corneille. In Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poem Ariadne. from Ideal Likenesses...
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  • 1661, Thomas Corneille (brother of the more famous Pierre) had presented his tragedy Camma, Reine de Galatie. However, Hoffman avoided using Corneille because...
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    and a prologue by Marc-Antoine Charpentier to a French libretto by Thomas Corneille. It was premiered at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris on December...
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    Corneille (1606–1684), tragedian. Guillaume Couture (1617–1701), lay missionary and diplomat Adrien Auzout (1622–1691), astronomer Thomas Corneille (1625–1709)...
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    England (summer) 1842: Chimène in Le Cid by Corneille (19 January) The title role of Ariane by Thomas Corneille (7 May) Toured in England and Belgium (summer)...
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  • Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) Jean Rotrou (1609–1650) Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) Molière (1622–1673) Samuel Chappuzeau (1625–1701) Thomas Corneille (1625–1709)...
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    least two other French plays, both titled Le Comte d'Essex: one by Thomas Corneille and one by Gauthier de Costes, seigneur de la Calprenède. The opera...
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    tragedy by Quinault, Thomas Corneille and Fontanelle, at Palais-Royal, April 19, 1678 Bellérophon, tragedy by Thomas Corneille, Fontenelle and Boileau...
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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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  • Ulysses La Circe, a 1624 poem by Lope de Vega Circé, a machine play by Thomas Corneille Circé (Desmarets), a 1694 opera by Henri Desmaret La Circe (Ziani)...
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  • 1586) 1561 – Jacopo Peri, Italian singer and composer (d. 1633) 1625 – Thomas Corneille, French playwright and philologist (d. 1709) 1632 – Louis Bourdaloue...
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  • Ariane Films, a former French film production company Ariane, a play by Thomas Corneille (1625–1709) Ariane, the name of the 1957 film Love in the Afternoon...
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    and Orlando furioso by Ariosto (where Camma is renamed Drusilla). Thomas Corneille wrote a play named Camma (1661) about the story of the Galatian princess...
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  • Tottenham Court (play) – Thomas Nabbes 1636 Life is a dream (play) – Pedro Calderón de la Barca Le Cid (play) – Pierre Corneille 1637 La Vega del Parnaso...
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  • Barthélemy d'Herbelot, French orientalist and academic (b. 1625) 1709 – Thomas Corneille, French playwright and philologist (b. 1625) 1722 – Elizabeth Charlotte...
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    prologue and five acts composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully to a libretto by Thomas Corneille (adapted from Molière's original play for which Lully had composed...
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    1.10–11. Gautier Coste de La Calprenède, Le Comte d'Essex (1639). Thomas Corneille, Le Comte d'Essex (1678). Claude Boyer, Le Comte d'Essex, tragedie...
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    de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris (d. 1695) August 20 – Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (d. 1709) August 21 – John Claypole, English politician...
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    plays by Thomas Corneille, twenty seven plays by Molière, twenty plays by Voltaire and The Spanish Student by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Thomas Henry Mahy...
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  • (1842–1908, France) Simon Corble (living, England) Pierre Corneille (1606–1684, France) Thomas Corneille (1625–1709, France) Joe Corrie (1894–1968, Scotland)...
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    December 7 – Meindert Hobbema, Dutch painter (b. 1638) December 8 – Thomas Corneille, French dramatist (b. 1625) December 15 – Sir Stephen Lennard, 2nd...
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