This “giant character” will have given, in the words of his son Louis, regularity to our language. Spoken French, at the time of Jean Racine, was not yet subject to strict rules:
“He contributed more than any other to giving it this constant form, which it did not yet have when he began to write. It was then that we sought to perfect it.”
Born in 1639 in La Ferté-Milon, he began a career in letters at a very young age, with a solid education at the temple of Jansenism in Port-Royal. What follows is the production of monuments of classical theater. Do you know how to quote them from memory?
While some names will come to mind quickly, being able to name characters and certain famous quotes is more difficult. However, it is about our general culture. The author of
Andromache
, from which comes the famous phrase
“I loved him too much not to hate him”
, or of
Phèdre
where we find the famous
“One cannot overcome one's destiny”
is a playwright which we have never explored. Will you get 10/10 on this test?