Pierre Corneille

About Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) is widely considered “the founder of French tragedy” and is counted among the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. He described is work as “a painting of the conversation of the gentry.”
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