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Written by Julia Wolf, Karim Kimo Galal. The novel is set in the middle of the 16th century. Madame de Chartres, for many years after the death of her husband, has lived far away from the court, and now came with her daughter to Paris. Mademoiselle de Chartres goes to a jeweler to choose something.
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La Princesse de Clèves. La Princesse de Clèves ([la pʁɛ̃.sɛs də klɛv], "The Princess of Cleves ") is a French novel which was published anonymously in March 1678. It was regarded by many as the beginning of the modern tradition of the psychological novel and a classic work. Its author is generally held to be Madame de La Fayette.
Monsieur de Cleves was in no doubt concerning the occasion of his journey; and he resolved to inform himself as to his wife's conduct, and to continue no longer in so cruel an uncertainty; he had a desire to set out the same time as the duke de Nemours did, and to hide himself where he might discover the success of the journey; but fearing his departure might appear extraordinary, and lest the ...
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Grandeur and gallantry never appeared with more lustre in France, thanin the last years of Henry the Second's reign. This Prince was amorousand handsome, and though his passion for Diana of Poitiers Duchess ofValentinois, was of above twenty years standing, it was not the lessviolent, nor did he give less distinguishing proofs of it. As he was happ...
"You know the friendship, there is betwixt Sancerre and me.Nevertheless about two years ago he fell in love with Madam de Tournon,and concealed it from me with as much care as from the rest of theworld; I had not the least suspicion of it. Madam de Tournon as yetappeared inconsolable for the death of her husband, and lived inretirement with great a...
"In the meantime, however busy and full I was of my new engagement withthe Queen, I still kept fair with Madam de Themines by a naturalinclination which it was not in my power to conquer; I thought shecooled in her love to me, and whereas, had I been prudent, I shouldhave made use of the change I observed in her for my cure, my loveredoubled upon i...
The Queen-mother was now wholly governed by the Cardinal of Loraine;the Viscount de Chartres had no interest with her, and the passion hehad for Madam de Martigues and for liberty hindered him from feelingthis loss as it deserved to be felt. The Cardinal, during the ten days'illness of the King, was at leisure to form his designs, and lead theQueen...
A late arrival at the ball is the duke de Nemours, the most handsome and gallant courtier in France. At his entrance, the Princess de Clèves, who had never seen the duke before, is ordered by the ...
The queen-dauphin asked monsieur de Cleves for a little picture he had of his wife's, to compare it with that which was just drawn; every body gave their judgment of the one and the other; and madam de Cleves ordered the painter to mend something in the head-dress of that which had been just brought in; the painter in obedience to her, took the picture out of the case in which it was, and ...
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Mademoiselle de Chartres is a 16-year-old ingénue brought to court by her mother, Madame de Chartres, who is searching for a match for her daughter. Mlle de Chartres’s beauty and manners are unparalleled, and soon she becomes the talk of the court. When Mme de Chartres’s plan to wed her daughter to a high-ranking nobleman falls through ...
