La Fayette, Madame de  1634-1693 <br/><br/>
La princesse de Monpensier 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_of_Montpensier_(novella) Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Princesse_de_Montpensier_(nouvelle)  Release date is 2006-08-26 
<br/><br/>Produced by Laurent Vogel. This file was produced from<br/>images generously made available by the Bibliothèque<br/>nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)  Produced by Laurent Vogel. This file was produced from<br/>images generously made available by the Bibliothèque<br/>nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) 
<br/><br/> "La princesse de Monpensier" by Madame de La Fayette is a novella published anonymously in 1662. Set during the reign of Charles IX amid the French Wars of Religion, this story follows a young princess trapped between duty and desire. As civil war rages outside, an interior battle unfolds through forbidden love, jealousy, and dangerous secrets at court. Through invented adventures anchored in historical events, La Fayette explores passion's destructive power and the fatal weakness of those consumed by love. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Man-woman relationships -- Fiction France -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ