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Pierre Corneille
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Definition:[1606 - 1684]a French dramatist and contemporary to Moliere and Racine. His best known play Le Cid, although very popular, got some people's panties bunched because it did not follow the classical unity rules (Victor Hugo had similar problems a few centuries later with his play Hernani).
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Coordinate geometry and the melancholy hexameters of Corneille and Racine held forth small allurements, and even psychology, which he had eagerly awaited, proved to be a dull subject full of muscular reactions and biological phrases rather than the study of personality and influence.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise (1920)
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crossed the Place des Arts, the Quai Napoleon, the Pont Neuf, and stopped short before the statue of Pierre Corneille.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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I remember so well a dinner I gave at Nice; there were Sardou, Labiche, Augier,” “Molière, Racine, Corneille,” M. Bloch added with sarcasm,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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