THE 1041 CHAPTER 7 Question and
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THE SUN KING - correct answer Louis XIV (5 September 1638 - 1
September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King
(le Roi-Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of
France and Navarre from 1643 until his death in 1715.His reign of 72 years
and 110 days is the longest of any monarch of a major[clarification needed]
country in European history. In the age of absolutism in Europe, Louis XIV's
France was a leader in the growing centralization of power.
JEAN RACINE - correct answer -a French dramatist, one of the three great
playwrights of 17th-century France (along with Molière and Corneille), and an
important literary figure in the Western tradition.
-primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection"
as Phèdre,Andromaque,and Athalie, although he did write one comedy, Les
Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther, for the young.
PIERRE CORNEILLE - correct answer -was a French tragedian. He is
generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French
dramatists, along with Molière and Jean Racine.
-As a young man, he earned the valuable patronage of Cardinal Richelieu,
who was trying to promote classical tragedy along formal lines, but later
quarrelled with him, especially over his best-known play, Le Cid, about a
medieval Spanish warrior, which was denounced by the newly formed
Académie française for breaching the unities. He continued to write well-
received tragedies for nearly forty years.
MOLIÈRE - correct answer JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN-was a French
playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of
comedy in Western literature.
answers already passed 2025
THE SUN KING - correct answer Louis XIV (5 September 1638 - 1
September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King
(le Roi-Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of
France and Navarre from 1643 until his death in 1715.His reign of 72 years
and 110 days is the longest of any monarch of a major[clarification needed]
country in European history. In the age of absolutism in Europe, Louis XIV's
France was a leader in the growing centralization of power.
JEAN RACINE - correct answer -a French dramatist, one of the three great
playwrights of 17th-century France (along with Molière and Corneille), and an
important literary figure in the Western tradition.
-primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection"
as Phèdre,Andromaque,and Athalie, although he did write one comedy, Les
Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther, for the young.
PIERRE CORNEILLE - correct answer -was a French tragedian. He is
generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French
dramatists, along with Molière and Jean Racine.
-As a young man, he earned the valuable patronage of Cardinal Richelieu,
who was trying to promote classical tragedy along formal lines, but later
quarrelled with him, especially over his best-known play, Le Cid, about a
medieval Spanish warrior, which was denounced by the newly formed
Académie française for breaching the unities. He continued to write well-
received tragedies for nearly forty years.
MOLIÈRE - correct answer JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN-was a French
playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of
comedy in Western literature.
