Corneille, THOMAS, younger brother of the great Corneille, was born at Rouen on August 20, 1625. He was a dramatist of considerable merit, was made a member of the Academy in 1685, and died at Andelys on December 17, 1709. His tragedies, Camma, Laodice, Pyrrhus, Bérénice, Timocrate, Ariane, Bradamante, &c., are in general superior to his comedies. He also wrote a verse-translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Corneille, THOMAS
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 484
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