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La Princesse de Clèves
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1678
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 200
At the court of Henri II everything is watched: a portrait goes missing from a table and the woman it belongs to says nothing, a letter falls into the wrong hands, and an entire life turns on who saw whom cross a room. Into this Madame de La Fayette places a young wife who has married a good man she cannot love and then meets the Duc de Nemours, whom the whole court is half in love with, and discovers what she is capable of feeling.
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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