Claire d'Albe by Madame Cottin

"Claire d'Albe" by Madame Cottin is an epistolary novel published anonymously in 1798. The story follows Claire, married at fifteen to a sixty-year-old man, whose quiet country life is disrupted when Frédéric, a young orphaned relative, enters their household. Despite her virtue and devotion to her two young children, Claire finds herself drawn to Frédéric's passionate nature. What begins as innocent companionship gradually transforms into forbidden love, testing the limits of duty, desire, and moral resolve. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Cottin, Madame (Sophie), 1770-1807
Title Claire d'Albe
Note Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_d%27Albe
Credits Produced by Daniel Fromont
Reading Level Reading ease score: 71.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject French fiction -- 18th century
Category Text
eBook-No. 26811
Release Date
Last Update Jan 4, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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