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Jean Racine

1639 - 1699

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Jean-Baptiste Racine ( rass-EEN, US also rə-SEEN; French: [ʒɑ̃ batist ʁasin]; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" as Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie. He did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther, for the young. Racine's plays displayed his mastery of the dodecasyllabic (12 syllable) French alexandrine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Racine is the 163rd most popular writer (down from 150th in 2019), the 180th most popular biography from France (down from 168th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Writer.

Jean Racine is most famous for his dramatic tragedies, "Andromaque," "Phèdre," and "Berenice."

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Among writers, Jean Racine ranks 163 out of 7,302. Before him are Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Ivan Turgenev, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Tomas Tranströmer, and Guillaume Apollinaire. After him are Elias Canetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Novalis, Heinrich Böll, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Walter Scott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1639, Jean Racine ranks 1. After him are Ivan Mazepa, Dom Pérignon, Marie Mancini, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse, Gottfried Kirch, Laura Martinozzi, Caspar Netscher, and Metacomet. Among people deceased in 1699, Jean Racine ranks 1. After him are Christian V of Denmark, Henry Every, Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria, Maria Sophia of Neuburg, Mattia Preti, Hortense Mancini, Marco d'Aviano, Albert V, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, Lucrezia Barberini, Patrick Gordon, and Mary Beale.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Racine ranks 180 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Daguerre (1787), Saint Sebastian (300), Catherine Deneuve (1943), Madame du Barry (1743), Jean-Michel Jarre (1948), and Philip V of Spain (1683). After him are Pope Innocent V (1225), Joachim Murat (1767), Nicolas Appert (1749), Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113), Guy of Lusignan (1150), and Jean-François Millet (1814).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean Racine ranks 33. Before him are Sully Prudhomme (1839), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), François Villon (1431), Jean Cocteau (1889), Paul Verlaine (1844), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1619). After him are Nicolas Flamel (1330), André Breton (1896), Stéphane Mallarmé (1842), Petronius (27), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), and Frédéric Mistral (1830).

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