'Fayette', (1634-1693), 1830. Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergen (1634-1693) known as Madame de La Fayette, French writer of one of the earliest historic novels 'La Princesse de Cleves'. Maid of honour to Queen Anne of Austria, she married Francois Motier a nobleman 18 years her senior. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. [Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830]

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