Jean Racine

**Jean Racine**
	French dramatist (1639–1699) Жан-Батист Расин
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Name in native language	Jean Racine;
Date of birth	December 1639; La Ferté-Milon
Date of death	21 April 1699; Paris
Manner of death	natural causes;
Cause of death	liver cancer;
Place of burial	Saint-Étienne-du-Mont;
Country of citizenship	Kingdom of France;
Educated at	Lycée Saint-Louis; Q108740666;
Occupation	playwright; poet; translator; librettist; historian; writer;
Member of	Académie Française (Jean-Baptiste-Henri de Valincour, François de La Mothe Le Vayer, 1672–1699); Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (Q117323612, 1683–1699);
Position held	seat 13 of the Académie française (1672–1699);
Movement	classicism;
Native language	French;
Father	Jean Racine;
Mother	Jeanne Sconin;
Child	Jean-Baptiste Racine; Louis Racine;
Spouse	Catherine de Romanet;
Notable work	Andromaque; Phèdre; Athalie; La Thébaïde; Alexandre le Grand; Les Plaideurs; Britannicus; Bérénice; Bajazet; Mithridate; Iphigénie; Esther;
Authority file
	Q742; ISNI: 0000 0001 2321 2338; VIAF ID: 88809641; GND ID: 118597523; Library of Congress authority ID: n79018531; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 120076761; IdRef ID: 028191730; NDL Authority ID: 00453564; Libraries Australia ID: 35438813; Biografisch Portaal van Nederland ID: 29968600, 12420319; NL CR AUT ID: jn19992000933; SELIBR ID: 208401; National Library of Israel ID (old): 000109004; Biblioteca Nacional de España ID: XX912620; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 068605153; NORAF ID: 90052151; NUKAT ID: n96020071; NLP ID (old): a0000001136631; National Library of Korea ID: KAC199622360; Libris-URI: 53hkld7p2q5g671; PLWABN ID: 9810692789405606; National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007266824705171; FranceArchives agent ID: 131444673; CiNii Books author ID: DA01059519; SBN author ID: CFIV010811; Open Library ID: OL60352A; Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren author ID: raci001; MusicBrainz artist ID: 591d7cdd-736b-45fd-9957-74570aeccde5; Itaú Cultural ID: pessoa360238/jean-racine; Europeana entity: agent/base/60505; IMDb ID: nm0705174; Internet Broadway Database person ID: 8225
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Engraving by Pierre Savart
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Illustrations of Racine's Work[edit]

Ilustration of "Andromaque"
Ilustration of "Esther"
Ilustration of "Britannicus"
Ilustration of "Berenice"
Ilustration of "Phedre"
Illustration of "the poisonning of Britannicus" by François Chauveau, from Racine's Britannicus