Comte de Lautréamont (French: [lotʁeamɔ̃]) was the nom de plume of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (4 April 1846 – 24 November 1870), a French poet born in Uruguay...

Madame de Montespan donated vast sums to hospitals and charities. She was also a generous patron of the arts and letters and befriended Corneille, Racine, and...

the province of Liège in Wallonia, Belgium. The village was part of the Comté de Logne [fr] from 895 until the French Revolution in 1789. In 1914, during...

and friend of Madame de Sévigné, the poet Boileau, and the dramatist Jean Racine. From the start, the passionate letters, in book form, were a European publishing...

relationship with François de La Rochefoucauld, author of Maximes, who introduced her to many literary luminaries of the time, including Racine and Boileau.[citation...

living a quiet life at the Château de Chantilly and associating with literary figures such as Molière and Racine. Despite his renewed contributions to...

of the determined efforts of the partisans of the "ancients", especially Racine and Boileau, who on four previous occasions had ensured his rejection. He...

Damase Racine (May 28, 1855 – December 2, 1921) was an Ontario merchant and political figure. He represented Russell in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario...

In the same year, Mme de Sévigné attended the Saint-Cyr performance of Racine's Esther, and some of her most amusing descriptions of court ceremonies and...

Morishima 1950, p. 108. Staercke, André de (2003). Mémoires sur la Régence et la Question Royale. Bruxelles: Editions Racine. p. 24. ISBN 978-2873863166. Saraiva...