Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine, and is often regarded as the founder of French classical tragedy. His 1637 play Le Cid became enormously popular with audiences even as it provoked a famous critical quarrel over whether it properly observed the dramatic rules of neoclassical theatre. Other major tragedies include Cinna and Polyeucte.
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He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.
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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 the medieval Spanish warrior, which was denounced by the newly formed Académie fra
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was a French tragedian
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