Corneille, Pierre, the father of French tragedy, I. 40. His parents, 40. His brother, Thomas Corneille, also a dramatist of celebrity, 41. His sister Marthe, mother of Fontenelle, 41. Taught at Rouen by Jesuits, 41. His first work, "Mélite," a comedy, 42. Mediocrity of his first dramas, 42. Corrects the plays of Richelieu, 43. His associates in that task, 43. He retires from Paris to Rouen, 43. His poems to madame Du Pont, 43. His "Medée" unsuccessful, 44. "Illusion," a comedy, 44. His genius fires with the study of Spanish dramas, 44. Reads the "Cid" of Guillen de Castro, 45. Corneille's drama of the "Cid," 45. 46. 101. Its plot and action, 101. Its renown, 47. Critique of the "Cid," by the Académie Française, 47. 48. Richelieu's observations thereon, 48. Corneille's tragedy of "Horace," 48. His tragedy of "Cinna," 49. "Polyeucte," 50. His comedy of "Le Menteur," 51. "Rodogune," 52. Ill success of "Don Sancho," "Theodore," and "Pertharite," 52. His "Essays on the Theatre," 54. His translation of the "Imitation of Jesus Christ," 54. Tragedy of "Œdipe," 54. Its success, 54. His genius afterwards unequal to his former fame, 54. Pension granted him by Louis XIV., 55. 60. Character of the great dramatist, 60. His fruitless attempts in later tragedies, 56. His "Agesilas and Attila," 57. His wife and sister described, 56. Is established in Paris, 56. Parallel of Racine and Corneille, 57. "Berenice," a subject treated by both poets, 58. Corneille less successful than his rival, 59. "Pulchérie," and "Suréna," his last plays, 59. Death of Corneille, aged seventy-nine, 59. Unison of his character with his works, 59. Public applause of the poet, 60. Eloge of, by Racine, 61. A great-niece of, adopted by Voltaire, 61, n. II. 78. His sons, I. 61. Allusions to, 262. Corneille, Thomas, dramatic author, I. 41. Success of his "Timocrates," 56. "Le Comte d'Essex" popular, 56. He and his brother Pierre marry the demoiselles de Lamperière, 56. Harmony of the Corneille family, 56. Some quotations from, 43, n. 55, n. 59, n. Corneille, Marthe, the mother of Fontenelle, I. 41. 56. Cotin, l'Abbé, his death hastened by critics and satirists, I. 147. Molière's attack on, 153, 154. Boileau's satire on, 263. Coulanges, Marie de, baronne de Chantal, mother of madame de Sévigné, I. 215. Coulanges, Christophe de, abbé de Livry, takes charge of his orphan niece, madame de Sévigné, I. 215. His consolations afforded her on the death of the marquis her husband, 218. His death, 251. Coulanges, M. de, cousin of madame de Sévigné, I. 232. Lawsuit of, pleaded by himself, 232. Dialogue in verse by, 232, n. Impromptu by, 235. His death, 235. Coulanges, madame de, I. 232. Celebrated for wit and beauty, 234. 339. Couvreur, mademoiselle, death and mode of sepulture of this actress, II. 23. Crébillon, dramatic poet, II. 43. 50. A rival of Voltaire, 51. 57. Cuspidius, Lucius, will of, I. 37. D.