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Definition of Jean Baptiste Racine
1. Noun. French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699).
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Literary usage of Jean Baptiste Racine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell (1899)
"Jean Baptiste Racine, French dramatist, was born at La Ferte'-Milon (dep. Aisne),
December 21, 1639; studied the classics with the Jansenists at Port Royal; ..."
2. Continental Drama: Calderon, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Lessing, Schiller by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller (1910)
"... INTRODUCTORY NOTE Jean Baptiste Racine, the younger contemporary of Corneille,
and his rival for supremacy in French classical tragedy, ..."
3. A History of Missouri from the Earliest Explorations and Settlements Until by Louis Houck (1908)
"Three miles northwest of New Madrid, and west of this lake St. Marys, Jean Baptiste
Racine, dit L' Empeigne,87 lived on lake St. Isidore in 1793. ..."
4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"... Don Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-1699) arrested by the conflict of duty.
Sanche the comic element mingles with the tragic. Above all he finds it difficult ..."
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