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Le Cid

American  
[luh seed] / lə ˈsid /

noun

  1. a drama (1636) by Corneille.


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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

And I used them twenty-five years later in the fourth act of Le Cid.

From My Recollections by Jules Massenet

Then came Le Cid to fill my life.

From My Recollections by Jules Massenet

It was in 1885, the master relates himself, when he had just terminated "Le Cid," that Mons.

From Masters of French Music by Arthur Hervey

Let us imagine, for example, one of those unreflecting promoters of absolute nature, of nature viewed apart from art, at the performance of a romantic play, say Le Cid.

From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot

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