by Madame de Lafayette · Flammarion · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080707574
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«La Princesse de Clèves» is the classic French novel by Madame de Lafayette, published by Flammarion in paperback (288 pages, in French).
Set in the court of Henry II of France, the novel follows a young noblewoman married to the Prince of Clèves, whom she respects but does not love. Upon meeting the Duke of Nemours, she discovers a passion that pits her against conjugal duty and her ideal of virtue, in a work that is a precursor of psychological analysis in French literature.
Edition by Jean Mesnard in Flammarion's GF collection, with the complete text. The novel was originally published in 1678.
Aimed at students of French literature and readers who wish to discover a seventeenth-century classic in its original language.
Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette, better known as Madame de La Fayette, was a French writer; she authored La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.
