WRITER

Pierre Corneille

1606 - 1684

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Pierre Corneille (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ kɔʁnɛj]; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Corneille has received more than 548,030 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Pierre Corneille is the 218th most popular writer (down from 211th in 2019), the 269th most popular biography from France (down from 250th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular French Writer.

Pierre Corneille is most famous for his tragedies, which include "Le Cid" and "Horace."

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  • 550k

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  • 72.07

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  • 73

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

La lingüística estructural
1979
La linguistique structurale
Linguistique structurale
1976
Essai sur la théologie morale
1844
Le Zombi du Grand-Pérou et autres œuvres érotiques
1970
Les chef-d'œuvres dramatiques de messieurs Corneille, avec le jugement des savants à la suite de chaque pièce
2001
Théorie biblique de la cosmogonie et de la géologie: doctrine nouvelle ..
1848

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pierre Corneille ranks 218 out of 7,302. Before him are Sigrid Undset, Maurice Leblanc, Carlo Goldoni, Diogenes Laërtius, Terence, and Quintilian. After him are Tomas Tranströmer, Ferdowsi, Isaac Bashevis Singer, J. K. Rowling, Bram Stoker, and Torquato Tasso.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1606, Pierre Corneille ranks 2. Before him is Rembrandt. After him are Li Zicheng, Maria Anna of Spain, Christine of France, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Joachim von Sandrart, Zhang Xianzhong, Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Mehmed IV Giray, Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons, and Laurent de La Hyre. Among people deceased in 1684, Pierre Corneille ranks 1. After him are Pieter de Hooch, Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Nicola Amati, Edme Mariotte, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Anne Gonzaga, Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein, Josefa de Óbidos, Antoine Gombaud, Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony, and Caspar Netscher.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Corneille ranks 269 out of 6,770. Before him are Philip I of France (1052), Jules Massenet (1842), Henry I of France (1008), Charles I of Anjou (1226), Frédéric Passy (1822), and Charles Gounod (1818). After him are Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Camille Claudel (1864), Louis, Dauphin of France (1729), Olympe de Gouges (1748), Arsène Wenger (1949), and Francis Picabia (1879).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Pierre Corneille ranks 42. Before him are Nicolas Flamel (1330), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), André Breton (1896), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), and Maurice Leblanc (1864). After him are Prosper Mérimée (1803), Frédéric Mistral (1830), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), Germaine de Staël (1766), François Mauriac (1885), and Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749).

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