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Jean Racine

Born on December 22, 1639

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Jean-Baptiste Racine ( rass-EEN, US also rə-SEEN; French:; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature.

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