The dramatic works of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine are typically composed of rhyming alexandrine couplets.

Corneille continued to write plays through 1674 ( mainly tragedies, but also something he called " heroic comedies ") and many continued to be successes, although the " irregularities " of his theatrical methods were increasingly criticized ( notably by François Hédelin, abbé d ' Aubignac ) and the success of Jean Racine from the late 1660s signaled the end of his preeminence.

At one point, Corneille took several shots at criticizing author Jean Mairet's family and lineage.

In 1670 Corneille and Jean Racine, one of his dramatic rivals, were challenged to write plays on the same incident.

Examples of classicist playwrights are Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine and Moliere.

Jean de La Fontaine, Corneille and Paul Scarron were a few of the many artists who enjoyed his patronage.

He became an expert on French authors and translated the works of many 17th century French poets and dramatists such as Jean Racine, Jean de La Fontaine and Pierre Corneille as well as writing three of his own books: Moliere bourgeois et libertin ; New Light on Moliere ; and After Polygamy was made a sin.

Members of her salon, received in the intimacy of her Chambre Bleue, admitted to the ruelle — the space between her daybed and the wall of the alcove — represented the flower of contemporary French literature, fashion, and wit, including Madame de Sévigné, Madame de La Fayette, Mademoiselle de Scudéry, the Duchesse de Longueville, the Duchesse de Montpensier, Jean Louis Guez de Balzac, Bossuet, Jean Chapelain, Corneille, François de Malherbe, Racan, Richelieu, La Rochefoucauld, Paul Scarron, Claude Favre de Vaugelas, and Vincent Voiture.

In 1680, the repertoire consisted of the collection of theatrical works by Molière and Jean Racine, along with a few works by Pierre Corneille, Paul Scarron and Jean Rotrou.

The tragedy by Jean Mairet ( 1634 ) is one of the first monuments of French " classicism ", and was followed by a version from Pierre Corneille ( 1663 ).

Corneille Jean François Heymans ( 28 March 1892, Ghent, Flanders – 18 July 1968, Knokke, Flanders ) was a Flemish physiologist.

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It was a result of the creation of the literary circle around Hugo which identified itself as Romanticist, taking Shakespeare as their model dramatist rather than the Classicist models of Jean Racine and Pierre Corneille supported by the French Academy.

Voltaire then asked him to submit to him his ideas on the difference between Jean Racine and Pierre Corneille.

17th-century French theater is often reduced to three great names — Pierre Corneille, Molière and Jean Racine — and to the triumph of " classicism ".

Jean Rotrou and Pierre Corneille would return to regular comedy shortly before 1630.

Although Pierre Corneille continued to produce tragedies until the end of his life, the works of Jean Racine from the late 1660s on totally eclipsed the late plays of the elder dramatist.

But his situations are often pathetic and noble, and as a tragic poet properly so called he is at his best almost the equal of Corneille and of Jean Racine.

Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after François Ancelot's tragedy Elisabeth d ' Angleterre, although Devereux was the subject of at least two other French plays: Le Comte d ' Essex by Thomas Corneille and Le Comte d ' Essex by La Calprenede.

It was perhaps his jealousy of the successful Corneille, together with the deaths of his aristocratic patrons, first the duc de Montmorency ( 1632 ) and then François de Faudoas, comte de Belin, that made Mairet give up writing for the stage.

* July 18 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1892 )

* March 28 – Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1968 )

He studied in England with Sir Henry Dale in London and with I. de Burgh Daly in Birmingham, and then proceeded to the continent, studying with Corneille Heymans in Ghent, Belgium and with Gustav Embden in Frankfurt, Germany.

* Corneille Heymans, ( 1892 – 1968 ), Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology and Medicine 1938

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