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Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille
Seventeenth-century French playwright Pierre Corneille was influenced by the classical plays of ancient Greece and Rome. He wrote many tragedies but was also a master of comedy, developing the comedy of manners, which satirizes the behavior of society. Corneille is considered one of France’s finest dramatists
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French Literature; Corneille, Pierre
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