Jacques Pradon
Jacques Pradon, often mistakenly called Nicolas Pradon (21 January 1644 – 14 January 1698), was a French playwright. Early in his career, he was helped by Pierre Corneille and was introduced to the salons at the Hôtel de Neversand the Hôtel de Bouillon by Madame Deshoulières. Pradon was born in Rouen and is the author of eight tragedies: Pyrame et Thisbé (1674) (see Pyramus and Thisbe), Tamerlan, ou la mort de Bajazet (1676), ' (1677), La Troade (1679), Statira (1680), Regulus (1688), Germanicus (1694) and Scipion (1697).
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Jacques Pradon
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- Died
- 1698
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Born in 1632, died in 1698.
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