by Madame de Lafayette · FLAMMARION · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081489738
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«La Princesse de Clèves» is the classic French novel by Madame de Lafayette, published by Flammarion in paperback (368 pages, in French).
In the sixteenth-century French court, during the reign of Henry II, a tragic triangle forms: the Duke of Nemours loves the Princess of Clèves, who returns his feelings but is married to a husband who adores her. The conflict between desire and moral duty runs through the narrative, making the work a classic of psychological analysis.
Edition with a dossier in the GF collection, edited by Jean Mesnard with a dossier by Jérôme Lecompte, aimed at the new 1re programs (parcours «Individu, morale et société» of the French Bac).
Suitable for French literature students in high school and for anyone wishing to read 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.
