by Madame de Lafayette · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081489844
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«La Princesse de Clèves» is the novel by Madame de Lafayette, published by Flammarion in paperback (250 pages, in French).
At the court of Henry II of France, the young woman married to the Prince of Clèves falls in love with the Duke of Nemours. Caught between conjugal duty and passion, she decides to take refuge in virtue and silence. The novel, considered a precursor of the psychological narrative, portrays the amorous and moral conventions of seventeenth-century aristocracy.
Edition from Flammarion's Étonnants Classiques collection, designed for the French baccalauréat syllabus (parcours «Individu, morale et société»), with pedagogical dossier.
Recommended for French students preparing for the baccalauréat and for those wishing to approach an essential classic of the seventeenth-century novel.
Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette, better known as Madame de La Fayette, was a French writer; she authored La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.
