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date: 21 May 2025

Lafayette, Marie‐Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de or Marie‐Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne La Fayette comtesse de 

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The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
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Joan Dejean

(1634–93).No author influenced early prose fiction more decisively than this woman who entered the literary scene as ...

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