The French dramatist who modeled his tragedies on the works of ancient Greek playwrights was Jean Baptiste Vivien. He spent close to 40 years perfecting only two plays.
Jean-Baptiste Vivien de Châteaubrun was a French playwright and dramatist. He was born in the year 1775 and dedicated his life to study Greek tragedies and also wrote and polished four plays based in them. They were 'Mahomet second', 'Les Troyennes', 'Philoctete' and 'Astyanax'. Tragically, his only surviving work is 'Les Troyennes', because his other plays were destroyed by his maid, who mistook them for wrapping paper.
Greek Classicism was a big part of the work of Jean Racine. His work primarily focused on neoclassical Greek tragedy, having only one comedy in his repertoire. His poetry is well respected and held to be his greatest contribution to French literature.
Racine
There have been several.
Moliere
Cocteau
Georges Feydeau
Jean Racine
Cyrano de Bergerac,
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Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh [June 23, 1910-October 3, 1987] was a French dramatist who included among his literary output his modernistic play 'Antigone'. Anouilh's version was an updated, retelling of the play of the same name by Sophocles [496 B.C.E.* - 406 B.C.E.], a famed ancient Greek playwright.Anouilh didn't limit his creativity on the stage to the penning of tragedies. In fact, he described himself as the author of seven types of plays. He identified his plays as aristocratic, baroque, fantastic, historical, realistic/tragic, sarcastic, or unsuccessful.*Before the Christian Era
West Point was modeled after the very successful French school called the Ecole Polytechnique. As it was in France, the US military Academy emphasized engineering.