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    Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette (baptized 18 March 1634 – 25 May 1693), better known as Madame de La Fayette, was a French writer;...
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    great-granddaughter of Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, niece of Madame de Maintenon. In 1795, the Marquise de LaFayette was imprisoned and facing execution. Elizabeth...
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    psychological novel and a classic work. Its author is generally held to be Madame de La Fayette. The action takes place between October 1558 and November 1559 primarily...
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    Motier de La Fayette. Louise de La Fayette (1618–1665): favourite of Louis XIII of France. Madame de La Fayette (1634–1693): author of La Princesse de Clèves...
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    royal House of Bourbon. Her sister-in-law was Madame de La Fayette (1634–1693) the author of La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and...
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    Monday, where they dined with the La Fayette family and with the liberal nobility, including Clermont-Tonnerre, Madame de Staël, Morellet, and Marmontel...
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    cousin Roger de Bussy-Rabutin and Madame de La Fayette. There was a family connection between these two great writers: in 1650, Mme de La Fayette's mother,...
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    père Courtesan, by Diane Haeger La Princesse de Clèves, by Madame de La Fayette The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici, by Jeanne Kalogridis Queen's...
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  • La Fayette Robin Renucci as Monsieur de La Rochefoucauld Cyrille Mairesse as La petite personne Antoine Prud'homme de la Boussinière as Charles de Sévigné...
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    Louis Henri de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Marquis of Montespan, who was one year her junior. Madame de La Fayette says in her Histoire de madame Henriette d'Angleterre...
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