Madame De Lafayette By Constance Wright

1959 hardcover first edition

Dust Jacket

Henry Holt and Company

Very Good condition

Madame de Lafayette by Constance Wright is a 1959 biography of Adrienne de Noailles, the wife of the Marquis de Lafayette, focusing on her life, particularly her endurance during the French Revolution, including her imprisonment and joining her husband in his Austrian jail. The book is praised for its portrayal of her emotions against the backdrop of a changing world, offering a poignant narrative of a historical figure