Born in 1639 in La Ferté-Milon, he attended the religious school Port- Royal and remained a follower of Jansenism even after breaking with the institution before producing his tragedy Andromaque.
Born in 1639 in La Ferté-Milon, he attended the religious school Port- Royal and remained a follower of Jansenism even after breaking with the institution before producing his tragedy Andromaque. Although criticized for his historical inaccuracy in Mithridate and Britannicus and for the general lack of anything happening in Bérénice, his poetry is considered of the highest quality. For ten points, name this man, the other member of the "big three" 17th-century French dramatists along with Molière and Corneille.
Born in 1639 in La Ferté-Milon, he attended the religious school Port- Royal and remained a follower of Jansenism even after breaking with the institution before producing his tragedy Andromaque.
Jean {Racine}