by
Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne La Fayette
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
This story was written by Madame de Lafayette and published anonymously in 1662. It is set in a period almost 100 years previously during the sanguinary wars of the counter-reformation, when the Catholic rulers of Europe, with the encouragement of the Papacy, were bent on extirpating the followers of...