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Bérénice, at the center of her author's work, in 1670, is a singular play in Racine's production: it is a tragedy where there is no blood. It seems perhaps all the more painful. Separating is worse here than dying. This is the fate of the three characters in the play: Bérénice, a queen who loves the emperor Titus and who was to marry him, Antiochus, who has a hopeless love for Bérénice. It is only a matter of pronouncing a word, so hard, so tender: goodbye.