Louis Racine (1692-1763)
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- Name (English)
- Louis Racine
- Short name
- Louis Racine
- Year of birth
- 1692
- Year of death
- 1763
- Short Description
- "Louis Racine (born 6 November 1692, Paris; died 29 January 1763, Paris) was a French poet of the Age of the Enlightenment.
The second son and the seventh and last child of the celebrated tragic dramatist Jean Racine, he was interested in poetry from childhood but was dissuaded from trying to make it his career by the poet Boileau on the grounds that the gift never existed in two successive generations. However, in 1719 Racine became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions and published his first major poem, La Grâce, in 1722. But, because of the poem´s Jansenist inspiration, Cardinal de Fleury, chief minister of Louis XV, blocked the poet´s admission to the Académie Française, and instead Racine was induced to accept the post of inspector-general of taxes at Marseille in Provence." - (en.wikipedia.org 08.11.2019) - Entity Encoding
- piz
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