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Excerpt from Esther: Tragédie En Trois Actes, Edited, With Introduction, Notes, and AppendicesJean racine, unquestionably the most perfect of the French tragic poets, was born in 1639, at La ferté-milon, near Paris. He received a sound classical education at port-royal des Champs, then a famous centre of religious thought and scholastic learning. At the early age of twenty he was so fortunate as to attract, by an Ode in honor of the marriage Of King Louis XIV., the favor of that exacting monarch, - a favor which he was to enjoy during forty years. Yet more fortunate in the friendship Of Moli'ere, of La Fontaine, and especially Of his trusty counsellor, Boileau, he doubtless owed to them his deter mination to devote himself to dramatic literature.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.