Pierre Corneille, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pierre Corneille

French tragedian

Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1606

Place of Birth: Rouen, Normandy, France

Date of Death: 01-Oct-1684

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, translator, author, poet lawyer

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Pierre Corneille (French pronunciation: ?[pj?? k??n?j]; Rouen, 6 June 1606 – Paris, 1 October 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.



Alternative names	Charles Lebrun
Description	French painter, architect and decorator
Date of birth/death	24 February 1619	12 February 1690
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Work location	Paris (....-1642), Rome (1642-1646), Paris (1646-....), Versailles (1679-1684, 1886)
Authority control	: Q271676 VIAF: 59097680 ISNI: 0000 0001 2101 6536 ULAN: 500016215 LCCN: n78072045 WGA: LE BRUN, Charles WorldCat