Gustave Lanson's "Corneille" in the
_Grands Ecrivains francais_ (1898); F. Bouquet's _Points obscurs et
nouveaux de la vie de Pierre Corneille_ (1888); _Corneille inconnu_,
by J. Levallois (1876); J. Lemaitre, _Corneille et la poetique
d'Aristote_ (1888); J. B. Segall, _Corneille and the Spanish Drama_
(1902); and the recently discovered and printed _Fragments sur Pierre
et Thomas Corneille_ of Alfred de Vigny (1905). On the _Cid_ quarrel
E. H. Chardon's _Vie de Rotrou_ (1884) bears mainly on a whole series
of documents which appeared at Rouen in the proceedings of the
_Societe des bibliophiles normands_ during the years 1891-1894. The
best-known English criticism, that of Hallam in his _Literature of
Europe_, is inadequate. The translations of separate plays are very
numerous, but of the complete _Theatre_ only one version (into
Italian) is recorded by the French editors. Fontenelle tells us that
his uncle had translations of the _Cid_ in every European tongue but
Turkish and Slavonic, and M. Picot's book apprises us that the latter
want, at any rate, is now supplied. Corneille has suffered less than
some other writers from the attribution of spurious works. Besides a
tragedy, _Sylla_, the chief piece thus assigned is _L'Occasion perdue
recouverte_, a rather loose tale in verse. Internal evidence by no
means fathers it on Corneille, and all external testimony is against
it. It has never been included in Corneille's works. It is curious
that a translation of Statius (_Thebaid_, bk. iii.), an author of whom
Corneille was extremely fond, though known to have been written,
printed and published, has entirely dropped out of sight. Three verses
quoted by Menage are all we possess. (G. SA.)

CORNEILLE, THOMAS (1625-1709), French dramatist, was born at Rouen on
the 20th of August 1625, being nearly twenty years younger than his
brother, the great Corneille. His skill in verse-making seems to have
shown itself early, as at the age of fifteen he composed a piece in
Latin which was represented by his fellow-pupils at the Jesuits' college
of Rouen. His first French play, _Les Engagements du hasard_, was acted
in 1647. _Le Feint Astrologue_, imitated from the Spanish, and imitated
by Dryden, came next year. At his brother's death he succeeded to his
vacant chair in the Academy. He then turned his attention to philology,
producing a new edition of the _Remarques_ of C. F. Va