His Enthusiasm for the Tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides

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Marriage of Louis XIV.

1660.

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Racine on this Occasion writes the Ode "Nymphes de la
Seine"

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Chapelain recommends him to the Minister Colbert

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Racine resides with his Uncle le Père Sconin at Uzès, in
Provence