{"id":108882,"date":"2026-07-06T10:10:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T08:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ccfs-sorbonne.fr\/?p=108882"},"modified":"2026-07-03T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:11:10","slug":"le-cid-corneille-summary-quarrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccfs-sorbonne.fr\/en\/le-cid-corneille-summary-quarrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Cid by Corneille: the play that shook seventeenth-century France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We set out five hundred, and saw ourselves five thousand on reaching the port&#8221;: that is how collective memory quotes the most famous line of <em>Le Cid<\/em>. It gets it wrong, fittingly. Corneille wrote &#8220;three thousand&#8221;, but the play is so large that everyone enlarges it again in quoting it. First performed on 7 January 1637 at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Marais in Paris, <em>Le Cid<\/em> was an instant triumph, set off the most famous literary quarrel of the French seventeenth century and left the language a bottomless supply of quotations. Plot, Cornelian dilemma, quarrel and immortal lines: here is why this play has not aged a day.<\/p>\n<h2>Key facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Le Cid<\/em> is a verse tragicomedy by Pierre Corneille, first performed on 7 January 1637 at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Marais in Paris.<\/li>\n<li>The play draws on a Spanish work, Guill\u00e9n de Castro&#8217;s <em>Las Mocedades del Cid<\/em> (1618), itself fed by the legend of the real Cid, Rodrigo D\u00edaz de Vivar.<\/li>\n<li>Its plot rests on the &#8220;Cornelian dilemma&#8221;: Rodrigue must choose between his father&#8217;s honour and his love for Chim\u00e8ne.<\/li>\n<li>Its insolent success triggered the Quarrel of the Cid (1637-1638), arbitrated by the newly founded Acad\u00e9mie fran\u00e7aise at Richelieu&#8217;s prompting.<\/li>\n<li>The exact line is &#8220;We set out five hundred; but with prompt reinforcement \/ We saw ourselves three thousand on reaching the port&#8221;, which memory almost always inflates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Corneille before Le Cid<\/h2>\n<p>Pierre Corneille was born in Rouen in 1606 to a family of lawyers. A reluctant advocate, he first made his name with comedies. In 1637 he was only thirty when <em>Le Cid<\/em> lifted him to the summit of French theatre, a summit he would later share with Moli\u00e8re and Racine. He died in Paris in 1684, having given his name to an adjective: Cornelian.<\/p>\n<h2>The story: Rodrigue and Chim\u00e8ne<\/h2>\n<p>Rodrigue and Chim\u00e8ne are in love and about to marry. Everything collapses when their fathers quarrel: the Count, Chim\u00e8ne&#8217;s father, humiliates old Don Di\u00e8gue, Rodrigue&#8217;s father, with a slap, and the old man is too frail to avenge himself. He entrusts his revenge to his son.<\/p>\n<p>Rodrigue then faces the impossible choice: avenging his father means killing the father of the woman he loves; renouncing means dishonour, and unworthiness in her eyes. He challenges the Count and kills him in a duel. Chim\u00e8ne, torn in her turn, demands his head from the king while never ceasing to love him. Sent to repel a Moorish attack, Rodrigue returns a national hero, crowned with the title of &#8220;Cid&#8221;. After a final judicial duel, the king rules: time will do its work, and the marriage, postponed, remains on the horizon. This open ending, in which Chim\u00e8ne does not rule out marrying her father&#8217;s killer, would cause a scandal.<\/p>\n<h2>The Cornelian dilemma, now part of the language<\/h2>\n<p>A &#8220;Cornelian dilemma&#8221; today means any choice between two equally binding demands, typically duty against feeling. The phrase comes straight from Rodrigue&#8217;s stanzas, the monologue in which the young man weighs honour and love before choosing. Corneille&#8217;s greatness lies there: his heroes do not suffer their fate, they decide it, and their glory is born of that wrenching choice. Four centuries on, the expression is used in offices and caf\u00e9s alike.<\/p>\n<h2>The Quarrel of the Cid: a triumph judged by the Acad\u00e9mie<\/h2>\n<p>The play&#8217;s success was such that it stirred the jealousy of rivals. On 1 April 1637, the playwright Georges de Scud\u00e9ry published his <em>Observations sur le Cid<\/em>, a full-dress indictment: the play allegedly violated the rules of classical theatre, plausibility and propriety, since a heroine could hardly marry her father&#8217;s killer. In June the case was brought before the Acad\u00e9mie fran\u00e7aise, founded two years earlier, with Richelieu pressing for arbitration.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict came on 23 November 1637: in <em>The Sentiments of the Acad\u00e9mie fran\u00e7aise on the tragicomedy of the Cid<\/em>, the institution largely sided with Scud\u00e9ry on the rules&#8230; while granting the play &#8220;an inexplicable charm&#8221;. The admission is delicious: the critics won the case, the public kept the play. The quarrel went on to fix the rules of French classical theatre, the very rules Moli\u00e8re and Racine would later have to master.<\/p>\n<h2>The lines France knows by heart<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;\u00d4 rage ! \u00f4 d\u00e9sespoir ! \u00f4 vieillesse ennemie !&#8221; (&#8220;O rage! O despair! O enemy old age!&#8221;): humiliated Don Di\u00e8gue&#8217;s lament, now the exclamation of spite par excellence.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Rodrigue, as-tu du c\u0153ur ?&#8221; (&#8220;Rodrigue, have you a heart?&#8221;): the father&#8217;s question, and the son&#8217;s reply, &#8220;Anyone but my father would learn on the spot.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;\u00c0 vaincre sans p\u00e9ril, on triomphe sans gloire&#8221; (&#8220;To conquer without danger is to triumph without glory&#8221;): the Count&#8217;s maxim, now a proverb.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Nous part\u00eemes cinq cents; mais par un prompt renfort \/ Nous nous v\u00eemes trois mille en arrivant au port&#8221;: Rodrigue&#8217;s account of the battle against the Moors, so famous it is almost always misquoted.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Va, je ne te hais point&#8221; (&#8220;Go, I do not hate you&#8221;): Chim\u00e8ne&#8217;s veiled confession, the textbook example of litotes, the figure that says less to suggest more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ccfs-sorbonne.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/statue-cid-burgos.jpg\" alt=\"Equestrian statue of the Cid in Burgos\" width=\"437\" height=\"583\" \/><figcaption>The statue of the Cid in Burgos, where the real Rodrigo D\u00edaz de Vivar is buried. CC0, Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Did the Cid really exist?<\/h2>\n<p>Yes. Rodrigo D\u00edaz de Vivar, an eleventh-century Castilian knight, distinguished himself in the wars of the Reconquista to the point of becoming a legendary hero on both sides of the lines: his byname comes from the Arabic <em>sayyid<\/em>, &#8220;lord&#8221;. He died in 1099 and is buried in Burgos cathedral, where his equestrian statue still watches over the city. Between the historical warlord and Corneille&#8217;s torn young lover, legend did its work, by way of the Spanish romances and Guill\u00e9n de Castro&#8217;s play that Corneille drew upon.<\/p>\n<h2>Why read Le Cid today<\/h2>\n<p>Because in two thousand lines you find everything theatre can do: an impossible conflict, characters who choose their destiny, and a language of unmatched density. Corneille&#8217;s alexandrine is an excellent French teacher: regular, sharp, made to be spoken aloud. It is also an ideal gateway to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccfs-sorbonne.fr\/en\/novels-poetry-theater-literary-classics-for-learning-french\/\">classics of French literature<\/a>, somewhere between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccfs-sorbonne.fr\/who-was-francois-villon-medieval-poet\/\">Fran\u00e7ois Villon<\/a>, whose gift for the striking phrase he shares, and the theatre of Moli\u00e8re that would follow him onto the same stage. To read it in the original with a teacher, our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccfs-sorbonne.fr\/en\/french-courses\/\">French courses in Paris<\/a> put literature on the syllabus from intermediate to advanced level.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n<h3>What is Le Cid about, in one sentence?<\/h3>\n<p>Rodrigue kills Chim\u00e8ne&#8217;s father in a duel to avenge his own father&#8217;s honour, and the two lovers, torn between love and duty, seek a way out that the king finally half-opens for them.<\/p>\n<h3>What is the exact &#8220;nous part\u00eemes cinq cents&#8221; line?<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Nous part\u00eemes cinq cents ; mais par un prompt renfort \/ Nous nous v\u00eemes trois mille en arrivant au port&#8221; (Act IV, scene 3): three thousand, not the five thousand so often heard.<\/p>\n<h3>What was the Quarrel of the Cid?<\/h3>\n<p>The controversy set off in 1637 by the play&#8217;s triumph: Scud\u00e9ry accused it of breaking the rules of theatre, and the Acad\u00e9mie fran\u00e7aise, brought in with Richelieu&#8217;s backing, sided with him on the rules while granting the play &#8220;an inexplicable charm&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>What does &#8220;Cornelian dilemma&#8221; mean?<\/h3>\n<p>An impossible choice between two equally legitimate demands, typically duty against feeling. The phrase comes from Rodrigue&#8217;s choice between his father&#8217;s honour and his love for Chim\u00e8ne.<\/p>\n<h3>Is Le Cid a tragedy or a tragicomedy?<\/h3>\n<p>Both. The play was created in 1637 as a tragicomedy; Corneille relabelled it a tragedy in a later edition, after revising it to fit the classical rules more closely.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Article written by the team at the Cours de Civilisation Fran\u00e7aise de la Sorbonne and editorially reviewed before publication. Last updated: July 2026. Details drawn from the Acad\u00e9mie fran\u00e7aise dossier on the Quarrel of the Cid and standard editions of the play.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We set out five hundred, and saw ourselves five thousand on reaching the port&#8221;: that is how collective memory quotes the most famous line of Le Cid. 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