Le Cid ("le  seed "), and Molière's  Tartuffe.
In a play in this language, one character remarks that "like virtue, crime has its degrees," and famously describes the title character as "daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë." Another play in this language sparked a literary war by violating the three "Classical unities." The title character of a comedy in this language is arrested at the very end by an officer he brought to arrest (*)  Cléante's brother-in-law. In that play in this language, Elmire reveals the title pious fraud to her husband Orgon. For 10 points, name this language used to write plays like Racine's  Phèdre, Corneille's (" kor-NAY 's")  Le Cid ("le  seed "), and Molière's  Tartuffe.
In a play in this language, one character remarks that "like virtue, crime has its degrees," and famously describes the title character as "daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë."
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