LA FAYETTE, MARIE MADELEINE PIOCHE DE LA VERGNE, COMTESSE DE

märēˈ mädəlĕnˈ pyôsh də lä vĕrˈnyə, kôntĕsˈ, 1634–92, French novelist of the classical period, whose chief work, La Princesse de Clèves (1678), is the first great French novel. The psychological realism of this story of a woman's renunciation of an illicit love, treated with chaste simplicity and quiet wit, has given the novel enduring appeal. Mme de La Fayette's friendship with the duc de La Rochefoucauld has led to unfounded theories that he appears in her novel as the unhappy lover and that he collaborated on the work.

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Time and Ways of Knowing under Louis XIV: Moliere, Sevigne, Lafayette
Book by Roland Racevskis; Bucknell University Press, 2003
Subjects: Clocks And Watches--France--History--17th Century, France--History--Louis Xiv, 1643-1715, France--Social Life And Customs--17th Century, French Literature--17th Century--History And Criticism, La Fayette--Madame De--(Marie-Madeleine Pioche De La Vergne)--1634-1693--Princesse De Cleves, Moliere--1622-1673--Tartuffe, Sevigne, Marie De Rabutin-Chantal--Marquise De--1626-1696--Correspondence, Time In Literature, Time Measurements--History--17th Century
...Librairie G6n6r- ale Francaise, 1985. Lafayette, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de. La Pri`tcedde de Cleved. Edited by Antoine...predente La Princesse de Cleves de Maoame de La Fayette. Paris: Gallimard, 1995. Levron, Jacques...
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Lafayette Comes to America
Book by Louis Gottschalk; University of Chicago Press, 1935
Subjects: Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier--Marquis De--1757-1834, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French
...132 , 163 Hunolstein, Comtesse d, 52 , 54 , 115 , 155...163 , 164 and n., 165 La Fayette estate in Basse-Auvergne...Lafayettes ancestor , 11 La Fayette, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de, 11 , 153 and n. Lafayette...
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Precious Women
Book by Dorothy Anne Liot Backer; Basic Books, 1974
Subjects: France--Social Life And Customs, Women--France--Biography, Women--France--Social Conditions
...182 -184 La Fayette, Comte de, 281 La Fayette, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Comtesse de, 156...102 -103 La Vergne, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de, see La Fayette, Marie-Madeleine Pioche, Comtesse de Lawrence...
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France in the American Revolution
Book by James Breck Perkins; Houghton Mifflin, 1911
Subjects: France--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--France, United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French
...370 , 391 , 395 , 474 . La Fayette, Marie-Louise-Julie de La Riviere, Marquise de, mother of above, 170 . La Fayette, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de, 170 . La Fayette, Michel-L-C-R-G. du Mothier...
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Sexual Politics in the Enlightenment: Women Writers Read Rousseau
Book by Mary Seidman Trouille; State University of New York Press, 1997
Subjects: Enlightenment, Feminism And Literature--France--History--18th Century, French Literature--18th Century--History And Criticism, French Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques--1712-1778--Criticism And Interpretation--History--18th Century, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques--1712-1778--Influence, Sex Role In Literature
La Fayette, Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse del, 264 , 271 , 286 , 311 , 313 , 348 n. 73 , 351 -52...See virago Marat, Jean-Paul, 173 , 182 , 184 , 278 Marie-Antoinette, 183 , 186 , 272 -73, 278 , 356 -57 n...
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La Fayette, Marie Madeleine Pioche De La Vergne, Comtesse De
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LA FAYETTE, MARIE MADELEINE PIOCHE DE LA VERGNE, COMTESSE DE mare mad len pyosh d la ver ny , kontes d lafaet , 1634 92, French novelist of the classical period, whose chief work, La...


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