Pierre de Larivey

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9 Obscure Literary Terms

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9 American Countercultural Books

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6 Wars of Independence

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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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Causes of the Great Depression

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Born	c.1540 • France
Died	February 12, 1619 • Troyes • France
Notable Works	“Comédies facétieuses”

Molière

French dramatist

Voltaire

French philosopher and author

Pierre Corneille

French poet and dramatist

Pierre Marivaux

French author

Jules Romains

French author

Jean de La Taille

French author

Eugène-Marin Labiche

French dramatist

Ludovic Halévy

French author

Dancourt, detail of an oil painting by Gabriel Gence, 1706; in the collection of the Comédie-Française, Paris

Florent Carton Dancourt

French author

Népomucène Lemercier

French author

Étienne Jodelle

French author

Philippe Fabre d’Églantine

French dramatist

Jacques Grévin

French author

Émile Augier

French dramatist

Bellecour

French playwright

Adam De La Halle

French poet

Édouard Bourdet

French dramatist

Destouches

French dramatist

Guillaume Oyono-Mbia

Cameroonian dramatist and writer

Jean Racine

French dramatist

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