<!-- Due to number and complexity of references, a carriage return that appears in the code only, not the page, is inserted at the end of long references, where the text resumes, as well as where a long reference ends, and another begins. --> Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ; ; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" <!-- -->as Phèdre, <!-- -->Andromaque, <!-- -->and Athalie. <!-- -->He did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs,<ref>--></ref> <!-- -->and a muted tragedy, Esther,<ref>--></ref> for the young. Wikipedia
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