biography
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Corneille de l'Isle, Thomas
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pronunciation:
[kaw(r)nay duh leel]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1625–1709)
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| biography:
| Playwright and lexicographer, born in Rouen, NW France, the younger brother of Pierre Corneille. He studied law, then turned to literature. His many plays include the well-known tragedies Timocrate (1656), La Mort d'Annibal (1669), and Ariane (1672). He experimented with comedy in the then popular Spanish style (Le Geôlier de soi-même, 1655), with opera, and with lyric drama. He also wrote a verse translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Dictionaries (1694 and 1708). A journalist on the Mercure Galant, he compiled dictionaries on art and geography. He sided in favour of the Moderns in the quarrel against the Ancients, and was elected to the Académie Française in 1685. |
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