Madame de Lafayette

1634 - 1693

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

movement: classicism, Précieuses

country of citizenship: France

native language: French

languages spoken, written or signed: French

occupation: writer, salonnière, novelist, historian, correspondent, lady-in-waiting

Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette (baptized 18 March 1634 – 25 May 1693), better known as Madame de La Fayette, was a French writer; she authored La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature. Source: Wikipedia (en)