Excerpt from Le Menteur: Comédie Pierre corneille was born, an eldest child, on the Sixth of June, 1606, at Rouen, the ancient capital Of Normandy. Both his father and grandfather were lawyers, and held public Office in the provincial administration. He had four Sisters, one of whom was the mother of Fontenelle, and two brothers, of whom the younger, Thomas, born in 1625, achieved well-deserved reputation as a dramatic author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.