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Athalie
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Definition:a 1691 play, the final tragedy of Jean Racine, and has been described as the masterpiece of "one of the greatest literary artists known" and the "ripest work" of Racine's genius. Voltaire considered the play the greatest triumph of the human mind, while Flaubert referred to it in Madame Bovary as the masterpiece of the French stage, [...]licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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Athalie was a homage to the greatest masterpiece of the French stage.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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Whenever he spoke of something whose beauty had until then remained hidden from me, of pine-forests or of hailstorms, of Notre-Dame de Paris, of Athalie, or of Phèdre, by some piece of imagery he would make their beauty explode and drench me with its essence.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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Albertine’s fears as to the difficulty of the subjects set had been more than justified by the two from which Gisèle had had to choose. The first was: “Sophocles, from the Shades, writes to Racine to console him for the failure of Athalie”;
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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