
Language
fr
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Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Hélène de Mink, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)
Release date
2015-03-26
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1606–1684
A towering figure of 17th-century French theater, he helped shape classical tragedy with plays that combine moral conflict, political tension, and powerful rhetoric. His best-known works, including Le Cid, Horace, and Cinna, still stand at the heart of the French dramatic tradition.
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