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Jean Racine (1639-1699) French dramatist." A careful examination of Racine's life and letters reveals a puzzling duality, a serious soul and a mobile mind. He was not merely religious; he was credulous and superstitious." (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. XIX, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 462-463.)
C. A.Sainte-Beuve, Translated by Katharine P. Wormeley, Portraits of the Seventeenth Century, Part 1 (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904) 286.
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