Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette (baptized 18 March 1634 – 25 May 1693), better known as Madame de La Fayette, was a French writer;...

great-granddaughter of Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, niece of Madame de Maintenon. In 1795, the Marquise de LaFayette was imprisoned and facing execution. Elizabeth...

royal House of Bourbon. Her sister-in-law was Madame de La Fayette (1634–1693) the author of La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and...

psychological novel and a classic work. Its author is generally held to be Madame de La Fayette. The action takes place between October 1558 and November 1559 primarily...

dined with the La Fayette family and with the liberal nobility, including Stanislas Marie Adélaïde, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre, Madame de Staël, André Morellet...

Motier de La Fayette. Louise de La Fayette (1618–1665): favourite of Louis XIII of France. Madame de La Fayette (1634–1693): author of La Princesse de Clèves...

cousin Roger de Bussy-Rabutin and Madame de La Fayette. There was a family connection between these two great writers: in 1650, Mme de La Fayette's mother,...

Louis Henri de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Marquis of Montespan, who was one year her junior. Madame de La Fayette says in her Histoire de madame Henriette d'Angleterre...

père Courtesan, by Diane Haeger La Princesse de Clèves, by Madame de La Fayette The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici, by Jeanne Kalogridis Queen's...

Maurois, André (1961). Adrienne; ou, La vie de Madame de La Fayette. Hachette Édouard de Barthélemy, Nouvelles de la cour et de la ville, 1879, pp 134...

construction of the French psychological novel. It announces the style of Madame de La Fayette novels. Dom Carlos was the basis for Friedrich Schiller’s play Don...

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (French: [ʒilbɛʁ dy mɔtje maʁki d(ə) la fajɛt]; 6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834)...

Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin Claude Favre de Vaugelas Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant Antoine Godeau Madame de La Fayette Jean de La Fontaine François de Malherbe...

Marceau, Pascal Greggory and Guillaume Canet. Based on Madame de La Fayette's 1678 novel La Princesse de Clèves, the film follows a talented photographer who...

regularly dined there, probably to see La Vallière. La Vallière grew closer with Montalais. According to Madame de La Fayette, a contemporary who later wrote...

writers of the period (such as Madame de La Fayette) in the works of literary historians of the 19th and 20th centuries, Madame de Villedieu is currently enjoying...

Michel Louis Christophe Roch Gilbert Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (13 August 1731 – 9 July 1759) was a colonel in the French Grenadiers. Michel Louis...

including Madame de Sévigné, Madame de La Fayette, Mademoiselle de Scudéry, the Duchesse de Longueville, the Duchesse de Montpensier, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac...

La Fayette Robin Renucci as Monsieur de La Rochefoucauld Cyrille Mairesse as La petite personne Antoine Prud'homme de la Boussinière as Charles de Sévigné...

is published in London. March – The novel La Princesse de Clèves, presumed to be by Madame de La Fayette, is published in Paris. It is set in 1558–1559...

certainly has taste." Madame de La Fayette was also surprised by and made similar comments about Liselotte's esprit de bon sens. When the Electress Sophia...

Château of Aix in Aix-la-Fayette, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, being the son of Georges d'Aix, seigneur de La Chaise, and of Renée de Rochefort. On his mother's...

far more than just the classicist masterpieces of Jean Racine and Madame de La Fayette. In Renaissance France, literature (in the broadest sense of the...

ironic) advice of Madame de La Fayette. Upon his mother's death, he inherited a large sum of money, allowing him to live a life of leisure. De Choisy delighted...

It was obviously based on the novel of the same name (1678) by Madame de La Fayette. The play is a lost work, and there are some doubts on its existence...

The Princess of Montpensier is a short novel by Madame de La Fayette which came out anonymously in 1662 as her first published work. It is regarded not...

1650) May 25 Al-Hurr al-Amili, Muslim cleric and scholar (b. 1624) Madame de La Fayette, French writer (b. 1634) May 27 Asano Mitsuakira (b. 1617) John Spencer...

Princess of Montpensier, based on the novel of the same title by Madame de La Fayette. The film Elizabeth, released in 1998, depicts a fictional courtship...

Montpensier, by Madame de La Fayette. He appears in Voltaire's epic poem "La Henriade" (1723). He is one of the characters in Alexandre Dumas's novel La Reine Margot...

author (born 1624) April 9 – Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French memoirist (born 1618) May 25 – Madame de La Fayette, French writer (born 1634) May 27...