by Bertrand Tavernier, Madame de Lafayette · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081248205
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«La Princesse de Montpensier» is Bertrand Tavernier's screenplay with Madame de Lafayette's short novel (Flammarion, paperback, 236 pages, in French).
France, 1567. Marie de Mézières is in love with the Duke of Guise, but her father marries her to the Prince of Montpensier. While her husband and her lover fight, the Count of Chabannes, a deserter from the war, becomes her tutor and reveals to her the contradictions of her time and the suffering of a forbidden love.
The film's screenplay was co-written by Bertrand Tavernier, Jean Cosmos and François-Olivier Rousseau. Flammarion published this edition in 2010.
For those who want to read the film's screenplay in French alongside the original short novel on which it is based.
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.
