Jean Racine (La Ferté-Milon, December 22, 1639 – Paris, April 21, 1699) was a French playwright and poet.
An illustrious representative of classical tragedy, Jean Racine is considered, along with Molière and Pierre Corneille, as one of the greatest French playwrights.
Orphaned from an early age, the child was taken in by his grandparents and then his godmother, a nun at the convent of Port-Royal.
He received a very good intellectual training there, making him one of the rare writers of his time to be able to read the Greek tragedies in their language, his main source of inspiration...
An illustrious representative of classical tragedy, Jean Racine is considered, along with Molière and Pierre Corneille, as one of the greatest French playwrights.
Orphaned from an early age, the child was taken in by his grandparents and then his godmother, a nun at the convent of Port-Royal.
He received a very good intellectual training there, making him one of the rare writers of his time to be able to read the Greek tragedies in their language, his main source of inspiration...
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