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The Princess of Cleves
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1678
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 170
A young wife at the French court falls for a man who is not her husband, confesses it to him out of honesty rather than guilt, and once free to have him, chooses a quiet life alone instead.
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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