Le Cid
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Richelieu once effortlessly composed a 500-line insert for Corneille's verse drama, Le Cid, to replace a passage of the author's that Richelieu thought in bad taste.
From Time Magazine Archive
Le Cid, 1636, the best-known if not the best of Corneille's plays, and, from the mere playwright's point of view, the most attractive.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
In spite of the good news from the general rehearsal of Le Cid, I spent the evening with the artists at Manon.
From My Recollections by Massenet, Jules
In Le Cid, Chimene's passion for Rodrigue struggles in a death-grapple with the destiny that makes Rodrigue the slayer of her father.
From Landmarks in French Literature by Strachey, Giles Lytton
Neither "Le Cid," nor "Polyeucte," nor "Andromaque," nor "Athalie"—Corneille and Racine's masterpieces—ever produced such rapturous enthusiasm.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 by Various
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