Pierre Corneille [SEP] native language
Pierre Corneille
Pierre Corneille (; Rouen, 6 June 1606 – Paris, 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.
As a young man, he earned the valuable patronage of Cardinal Richelieu, who was trying to promote classical tragedy along formal lines, but later quarrelled with him, especially over his best-known play, "Le Cid", about a medieval Spanish warrior, which was denounced by the
France and Belgium.
Hispanism in France dates back to the powerful influence of Spanish Golden Age literature on authors such as Pierre Corneille and Paul Scarron. Spanish influence was also brought to France by Spanish Protestants who fled the Inquisition, many of whom took up teaching of the Spanish language. These included , author of a sequel to "Lazarillo de Tormes". N. Charpentier's "Parfaicte méthode pour entendre, écrire et parler la langue espagnole" (Paris: Lucas Breyel, 1597) was supplemented by the grammar of (