Princesse de Clèves 1678
By Madame de La Fayette, Everett Carll Ladd, Ann Gostyn Serow, Thomas Sergeant Perry, François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Jean Mesnard, Jérôme Lecompte, H. Ashton, Robin Buss, Duas Duas Columnas, M. Philippe Ballin, Selina Hastings, Nancy Mitford, Alba Longa, Rostand Breck, Leonard Tancock, Jérémy Lasseaux, Li yu min, Josep Antoni Grimalt Gomila, Emma Calatayud, Nicole d'Amonville Alegría, Yvonne Jocks, Thomas Perry, Jules Garnier, A. Lamotte
- Fiction, History, Married women, Nobility
The Princess of Cleves is a French novel published in 1678 that is regarded as one of the first psychological novels. The plot is set in the royal court of Henry II of France.
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Grave, earnest, prestige and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Madame de La Fayette, Everett Carll Ladd, Ann Gostyn Serow, Thomas Sergeant Perry, François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Jean Mesnard, Jérôme Lecompte, H. Ashton, Robin Buss, Duas Duas Columnas, M. Philippe Ballin, Selina Hastings, Nancy Mitford, Alba Longa, Rostand Breck, Leonard Tancock, Jérémy Lasseaux, Li yu min, Josep Antoni Grimalt Gomila, Emma Calatayud, Nicole d'Amonville Alegría, Yvonne Jocks, Thomas Perry, Jules Garnier, A. Lamotte
- First published
- 1892
- Pages
- 199
- Publisher
- publisher not identified, Bei jing yan shan chu ban she, Blurb
- Editions
- 417
- Language
- German, French, Russian, fin
- ISBN
- 9798806628429
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“Grandeur and gallantry never appeared with more lustre in France, than in the last years of Henry the Second's reign.”
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