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Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) One of the greatest tragic poets and dramatists of France. Perhaps best known for the tragi-comedy of Le Cid (1636).
C. A.Sainte-Beuve, Translated by Katharine P. Wormeley, Portraits of the Seventeenth Century, Part 2 (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904) 32.
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