biography
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Pradon, Jacques
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occasional pseudonym Nicolas Pradon
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pronunciation:
[pradõ]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1632–98)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Rouen, NW France. The success of his first tragedy, Pyrame et Thisbé (1674), earned him comparison with Racine, against Phèdre, on which his detractors composed a sonnet to which he replied in the same rhymes. It needed the intervention of Condé to put an end to this ‘querelle des sonnets’ in 1677. Pradon did not lack talent, as his Regulus (1688) proved, and in fact gave homage to his adversary by composing imitations. |
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