Definitions for Corneille

Corneille Cor·neille

Spelling: [kawr-ney; French kawr-ne-y Corneille is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 286 anagrams from letters in Corneille (ceeillnor).

Definitions for Corneille

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  1. Pierre [pee-air;; French pyer] /piˈɛər;; French pyɛr/ (Show IPA), 1606–84, French dramatist and poet.

Examples for Corneille

Corneille gives his answer to such a challenge in the tragedy of Polyeucte .

It should not surprise us that Corneille preferred Lucan to Virgil.

But oh, that a nation which has known a Corneille should ever spawn forth a ——-!

It established not only Corneille's fame, but his authority.

Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him.

Voltaire, as editor and commentator of Corneille, is freezingly cold.

Corneille did not, however, like Molière, tread the boards as an actor.

The two great names in French tragedy are Corneille and Racine.

Racine had, too, in contrast with Corneille, more of the Euripidean sweetness.

Corneille and his father were both officers of this jurisdiction later on.

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