Jean Racine

Jean Racine was born in December 1639 at La Ferté-Milon. Orphaned before the age of four and raised by his grandparents, he was trained in the schools of Port-Royal, in the Jansenist milieu, before breaking with his teachers for the theatre, for which he wrote eleven tragedies and one comedy. Elected to the Académie française in 1672, he was appointed royal historiographer with Boileau in 1677 and then stopped writing for the stage, to which he returned only in 1689. Reconciled with Port-Royal, he died in April 1699 and was buried there.

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