OEUVRES COMPLETES de P. CORNEILLE
from "CLASSIQUES FRANCOIS" series
Paris; 1855
Size 6 by 9"
Text in French
Fine morocco bindings with embossed gilt crowned coat of arms on each front cover and gilt decorated spines, with 5 bands and date '1855' at the lower edge.
Gilt label with coat of arms and initials 'AR' at the front pastedowns
Marbled edges and endpapers.
Very good condition

Pierre Corneille (1606 – 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 Académie française for breaching the unities. He continued to write well-received tragedies for nearly forty years.



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