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Jean Racine
Jean Racine was a French dramatist, the leading writer of tragedy in the age of Louis XIV. Educated by the Jansenists of Port-Royal, he wrote plays such as Andromaque, Britannicus and Phèdre, which follow the classical rules of unity in elegant verse. In 1677 he became royal historiographer, and he later wrote the biblical plays Esther and Athalie for a girls' school at Saint-Cyr.
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