by Jean Racine · Librairie Larousse · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782038701425
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«Esther» is the tragedy by Jean Racine, published by Librairie Larousse in paperback (112 pages, in French).
Composed in 1689 at the request of Madame de Maintenon for the pupils of the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, the work dramatises the biblical account from the Book of Esther: Queen Esther, wife of the Persian king Ahasuerus, intervenes before the court to save the Jewish people from a threat.
The edition belongs to the Classiques Larousse collection and includes an introduction and a biographical article by Henri Chabot.
Aimed at students of French literature and readers interested in seventeenth-century classical theatre.
Racine is a city in Racine County, Wisconsin, United States, and its county seat. It is located on the shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Root River, 22 miles (35 km) south of Milwaukee and 60 miles (97 km) north of Chicago. It is the fifth-most populous city in Wisconsin, with a population of 77,816 at the 2020 census. The Racine metropolitan statistical area, consisting solely of Racine County, has an estimated 199,000 residents.
