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Andromaque - English
URL: http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/andromaque001.html

A summary of Racine's tragedy 'Andromaque.'

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jean Racine - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12630b.htm

Left an orphan at a very early age, his relatives sent him to the College of Beauvais, which was intimately connected with Port Royal, whither he went in 1655. Here, though only sixteen years of age, he made such progress that he not only read Greek at sight, but wrote odes both in Latin and in French.

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Jean Racine: His Childhood and Early Career - English
URL: http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/racine001.html

Jean Racine was born in 1639 at La Ferte-Milon, where his father was controller of the salt magazine and of the salt tax. Becoming an orphan in his fourth year, the boy was taken in charge by near relatives, and at the age of eleven or twelve was sent to the collège de Beauvais, proceeding thence to the monastery at Port Royal, whither his grandmother and two aunts had retired to devote themselves to piety and the education of youth.

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Jean Racine - English
URL: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jracine.htm

Playwright, poet, master of the classical French tragedy in the times of Moliére. Racine took his subjects from antique or mythology and became very popular with his plays of blind, passionate love. His dramas followed the neoclassical tragic form; they had five acts and the dramatic time of the action did not exceed one day.

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Jean Racine (1639-1699) - English
URL: http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc56.html

Born on December 20, 1639, Jean Racine was orphaned at a young age and raised by his grandmother, Marie des Moulins, who took the boy with her to the convent of Port-Royal des Champs near Paris after she was widowed.

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Jean Racine - English
URL: http://www.theatredatabase.com/17th_century/jean_racine_001.html

A biography of the French dramatist and analysis of his works.

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Jean Racine - French
URL: http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/ConsultationTout.exe?O=N101481&T=2

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Théâtre complet.

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Æàí Ðàñèí - Russian
URL: http://mirrors.smtn.stavropol.ru/moshkow/koi/INOOLD/RASIN/rasin1_09.txt

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Èç "Ôåäðû" Ðàñèíà (Ïåð. Ô. È. Òþò÷åâà)

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Æ. Ðàñèí. Àôîðèçìû, ìûñëè, ôðàçû. - Russian
URL: http://aphorism.ru/author/a4930.shtml

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ÐÀÑÈÍ, ÆÀÍ - Russian
URL: http://www.krugosvet.ru/articles/45/1004549/1004549a1.htm

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Çàâåðøèâ îáðàçîâàíèå â ïàðèæñêîì êîëëåæå Àðêóð, îí â 1660 ïîñåëèëñÿ ó ñâîåãî êóçåíà Í.Âèòàðà, óïðàâëÿþùåãî èìåíèÿ ãåðöîãà äå Ëþèíà. Ïðèìåðíî â ýòî âðåìÿ ó Ðàñèíà ïîÿâèëèñü ñâÿçè â ëèòåðàòóðíîé ñðåäå, ãäå îí ïîçíàêîìèëñÿ ñ ïîýòîì Æ.äå Ëàôîíòåíîì.  òîì æå ãîäó áûëà íàïèñàíà ïîýìà Íèìôà Ñåíû (La Nymphe de la Seine), çà êîòîðóþ Ðàñèí ïîëó÷èë ïåíñèþ îò êîðîëÿ, à òàêæå äâå ïåðâûå ñâîè ïüåñû, íèêîãäà íå ñòàâèâøèåñÿ íà ñöåíå è íå ñîõðàíèâøèåñÿ.

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Lib.Ru: Æàí Ðàñèí - Russian
URL: http://lib.ru/INOOLD/RASIN/

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Jean RACINE - French
URL: http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=87

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Biographie

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RACINE, Jean - German
URL: http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/r/racine_j.shtml

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phorum - Racine, Jean Baptiste - English
URL: http://jollyroger.com/classics/cforum/list.php?f=200

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BACKGROUND FOR RACINE’S ANDROMAQUE: - English
URL: http://www.unc.edu/~fwvogler/fren40/summer/RACINE1.html

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Racine, Jean - German
URL: http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/autoren/racine.htm

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Im Projekt Gutenberg-DE vorhanden: Phädra (übertragen von Schiller)

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Jean Racine - French
URL: http://abu.cnam.fr/BIB/auteurs/racinej.html

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Andromaque (1667); Athalie; Britannicus (1669); Iphigénie en Aulide (1674); Phèdre.

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