Pierre Corneille

Detail from a portrait by [[Charles Le Brun]] Pierre Corneille (; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.

As a young man, he earned the valuable patronage of Cardinal Richelieu, who was trying to promote classical tragedy along formal lines, but later quarrelled with him, especially over his best-known play, ''Le Cid'', about a medieval Spanish warrior, which was denounced by the newly formed for breaching the unities. He continued to write well-received tragedies for nearly forty years.

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    by Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684
    Published 1825
    [Paris, Veuve Dabo, 1825]
    p. [220]-299.
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    by Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684
    Published 1825
    [Paris, Veuve Dabo, 1825]
    p. [112]-194.
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    by Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684
    Published 1825
    [Paris, Veuve Dabo, 1825]
    p. 6-81. 13 cm.
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    by Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684
    Published 1825
    [Paris, Veuve Dabo, 1825]
    p. [90]-160.
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    by Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684
    Published 1752
    Vienna, van Ghelen, 1752.
    120 p.
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    by Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684
    Published 1970
    Paris : Slatkine Reprints, 1970.
    145 p. ; 17 cm.
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    by Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684
    Published 1862
    Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1862.
    2 v.
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    by Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684
    Published 1900
    New York, Macmillan, 1900.
    xxiii, 143 p.
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    by Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684
    Published 1666
    Oldenburg : gedruckt bey Joh. Erich Zimmer, 1666.
    [8], 344 p. ; 16 cm.
    Other Authors: ...Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684...
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    by Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684
    Published 1825
    [Paris, Veuve Dabo, 1825]
    p. 20-98.
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    by Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684
    Published 1825
    [Paris, Veuve Dabo, 1825]
    p. [161]-283.
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    by Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684
    Published 1847
    Manchester : Lowes, 1847.
    95, [1] p.
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    by Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684
    Published 1891
    Boston, D.C. Heath [c1891]
    130 p. illus.
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    by Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684
    Published 1747
    Venetia, Appresso Giuseppe Bertella nel Negozio Hertz, 1747.
    4 v. 8vo.
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    by Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684
    Published 1855
    New York : Darcie and Corbyn, 1855.
    28 p.

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