1672 Mithridate (tragedy) 1673 Iphigénie en Aulide (tragedy) 1674 Phèdre (tragedy) 1677 Esther (tragedy) 1689 Athalie (tragedy) 1691 Jacques Pradon (1632–1698) Pyrame et Thisbé (tragedy) 1674 Tamerlan, ou la mort de Bajazet (tragedy) 1676 Phèdre et Hippolyte (tragedy) 1677; this play, released at the same time as Racine's, enjoyed momentary success Jean-François Regnard (1655–1709) Le Joueur (comedy) 1696 Le Distrait (comedy) 1697 Jean Galbert de Campistron (1656–1723) Andronic (tragedy) 1685 Tiridate (tragedy) 1691 Florent Carton Dancourt (1661–1725) Le Chevalier à la mode (comedy) 1687 Les Bourgeoises à la mode (comedy) 1693 Les Bourgeoises de qualité (comedy) 1700 Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747) Turcaret (comedy) 1708 Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674–1762) Idomnée (tragedy) 1705 Atrée et Thyeste (tragedy) 1707 Electre (tragedy) 1709 Rhadamiste et Zénobie (tragedy) 1711 Xerxes (tragedy) 1714 Sémiramis (tragedy) 1717 Other genres Moral and philosophical reflection The 17th century was dominated by a profound moral and religious fervor unleashed by the Counter-Reformation. Of all literary works, devotional books were the century's best sellers. New religious organisations swept the country (see, for example, the work of Saint Vincent de Paul and Saint Francis de Sales). The preacher Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704) was known for his sermons, and theologian–orator Jacques-Benigne Bossuet (1627–1704) composed a number of celebrated funeral orations. Nevertheless, the 17th century had a number of writers who were considered "libertine"; these authors (like Théophile de Viau (1590–1626) and Charles de Saint-Evremond (1610–1703)), inspired by Epicurus and the publication of Petronius, professed doubts of religious or moral matters during a period of increasingly reactionary religious fervor. René Descartes' (1596–1650) Discours de la méthode (1637) and Méditations marked a complete break with medieval philosophical reflection. An outgrowth of counter-reformation Catholicism, Jansenism advocated a profound moral and spiritual interrogation of the soul. This movement would attract writers such as Blaise Pascal and Jean Racine, but would eventually come under attack for heresy (they espoused a doctrine bordering on predestination), and their monastery at Port-Royal was suppressed. Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) was a satirist for their cause (in his Lettres provinciales (1656–57)), but his greatest moral and religious work was his unfinished and fragmentary collection of thoughts justifying the Christian religion named Pensées (Thoughts) (the most famous section being his discussion of the "pari" or "wager" on the possible eternity of the soul). Another outgrowth of the religious fervor of the period was Quietism, which taught practitioners a kind of spiritual meditative state. François de La