This essay on princess cleves and her psychical statues was written and submitted by user tal1sman to help you with your own studies. The princess of cleves being at those years, wherein people think a woman is incapable of inciting love after the age of twentyfive, beheld with the utmost astonishment the kings passion for the duchess, who was a grandmother, and had lately married her granddaughter. This classic translation, with an introduction, by the late english novelist and biographer nancy mitford, was first brought out in 1951 by. The vidame then asks nemours to keep up the ruse by locating the letter and returning it before more eyes see it and recognize the. Nearly every character except the heroine is a historic. It is interesting, however, to read a letter of hers touching this point, for it shows, apart from other things, what opinion her contemporaries had of her masterpiece.
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