Jean Racine
Noun
Meaning
French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699)
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Examples
We sang Cantique de Jean Racine but that was in high school choir.
The dramatic works of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine are typically composed of rhyming alexandrine couplets.
Jean Racine died in 1699 from cancer of the liver.