biography
pronunciation:
[rohtroo]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1609–50)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Dreux, NC France. He wrote his first play, L'Hypocondriaque before he was 20, and soon won the support of Cardinal Richelieu and became house dramatist at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, the most important theatre in Paris. His play La Soeur, gave a foretaste of Molière, and Iphigénie en Aulide of Racine. Other works include Le Véritable Saint-Genest (1647), Venceslas (1648), and Cosroès (1649). Regarded as a major French Neoclassical playwright, he shares with Pierre Corneille the credit for increasing the prestige and respectability of the theatre in Paris. He died, as sheriff of Dreux, after a plague epidemic. |
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