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Madame de La Fayette

French writer (1634-1693) · France · Writers · Died at 59

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She wrote what France calls its first historical novel - and one of literature's earliest novels at all - then published it without her name on the cover.

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  1. The King's colours were white and black, which he always wore in honour of the Duchess of Valentinois, who was a widow. The Duke of Ferrara and his retinue had yellow and red.

    1678, La Princesse de Clèves (1678) (Kessinger Publishing, 2004, ), p. 89, Own words

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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.

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France
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Writers
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Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1634 to 1693 · aged 59

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