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;...

great-granddaughter of Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, niece of Madame de Maintenon. In 1795, the Marquise de LaFayette was imprisoned and facing execution. Elizabeth...

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...

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...

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...

Monday, where they dined with the La Fayette family and with the liberal nobility, including Clermont-Tonnerre, Madame de Staël, Morellet, and Marmontel...

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,...

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...

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (French: [ʒilbɛʁ dy mɔtje maʁki d(ə) la fajɛt]; 6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834)...

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...