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   La Chaussée, Pierre Claude Nivelle de
   (1692-1754) French dramatist. His work combined the tragedy of common life and pathetic comedy, and was described as comédie larmoyante (`comedy with tears`). Among his plays are Le Préjugéà la mode...
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   La Chaussée, Pierre-Claude Nivelle de
   French playwright who created the comédie larmoyante (`tearful comedy`), a verse-drama form merging tearful, sentimental scenes with an invariably ... [1 related articles]
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