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The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Note 340 — VII. OF THE TOWN.322

Henri Van Laun translation

Hippolytus, son of Theseus, king of Athens, “a youth who never knew a woman,” thrown from his chariot and killed, is the hero of Racineʼs tragedy Phèdre.

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