About Jean Racine:
Jean Racine was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France (along with Molière and Corneille), and an important literary figure in the Western tradition. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" as Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie, although he did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther, for the young.
Présente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve; Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit
Jean RacineMy death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
Jean RacineI have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
Jean Racine