La princesse de Monpensier by Madame de La Fayette
"La princesse de Monpensier" by Madame de La Fayette is a novella published anonymously in 1662. Set during the reign of Charles IX amid the French Wars of Religion, this story follows a young princess trapped between duty and desire. As civil war rages outside, an interior battle unfolds through forbidden love, jealousy, and dangerous secrets at court. Through invented adventures anchored in historical events, La Fayette explores passion's destructive power and
the fatal weakness of those consumed by love. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Read or download for free
| How to read | Url | Size | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read now! | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19124.html.images | 96 kB | |||
| EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19124.epub3.images | 57 kB | |||
| EPUB (older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19124.epub.images | 57 kB | |||
| Kindle | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19124.kf8.images | 91 kB | |||
| older Kindles | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19124.kindle.images | 81 kB | |||
| Plain Text UTF-8 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19124.txt.utf-8 | 88 kB | |||
| Download HTML (zip) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/19124/pg19124-h.zip | 51 kB | |||
| There may be more files related to this item. | |||||
Similar Books
About this eBook
| Author | La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne), 1634-1693 |
|---|---|
| Title | La princesse de Monpensier |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_of_Montpensier_(novella) Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Princesse_de_Montpensier_(nouvelle) |
| Credits |
Produced by Laurent Vogel. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 65.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction |
| Subject | France -- History -- 16th century -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 19124 |
| Release Date | Aug 26, 2006 |
| Most Recently Updated | Feb 23, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 232 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! | |