La princesse de Monpensier by Madame de La Fayette

"La princesse de Monpensier" by Madame de La Fayette is a novella published anonymously in 1662. Set during the reign of Charles IX amid the French Wars of Religion, this story follows a young princess trapped between duty and desire. As civil war rages outside, an interior battle unfolds through forbidden love, jealousy, and dangerous secrets at court. Through invented adventures anchored in historical events, La Fayette explores passion's destructive power and the fatal weakness of those consumed by love. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne), 1634-1693
Title La princesse de Monpensier
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_of_Montpensier_(novella) Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Princesse_de_Montpensier_(nouvelle)
Credits Produced by Laurent Vogel. This file was produced from
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nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 65.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Subject France -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 19124
Release Date
Last Update Feb 23, 2020
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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