# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:08:44.383Z

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birthDate: "1634-03-18"
deathDate: "1693-05-25"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne was baptized 18 March 1634 and became the Comtesse de La Fayette by marriage. Somewhere in that span she wrote La Princesse de Clèves, a work that would later be recognized as France's first historical novel and among the earliest novels in all of literature. She died 25 May 1693, leaving behind a form that hadn't quite existed before she touched it.