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That there was little congeniality between husband and wife cannot be doubted, yet Mme. de La Fayette's own letters go to prove that for a time at least she was not unhappy. In a letter to Ménage, written from Auvergne soon after her marriage, she says: "La solitude que je trouve ici m'est plutôt agréable qu'ennuyeuse.
However, Mme. de Sévigné's letters leave us wholly in the dark as to when this intimacy began. Sainte-Beuve holds that it was about 1665, and makes a strong argument for his view of the matter. D'Haussonville believes that this remarkable union was the result of long acquaintance and slowly ripening friendship, the acquaintance having begun in the years following Mme. de La Fayette's marriage, that is, between 1655 and 1665. He sums up the matter as follows: "Une chose est certaine: c'est que La Rochefoucauld s'est emparé peu
Of Monsieur de La Fayette's relations to his wife, we are almost wholly ignorant; and the sole evidence beyond a line or two in Mme. de La Fayette's letters that he existed at all, was the birth to the wife of two children.
Mme. de La Fayette's first published work was La Princesse de Montpensier in 1660 or 1662. This was followed by Zaïde, in 1670, which bore the name of Segrais, but which is by Mme. de La Fayette. La Princesse de Clèves was published in 1677 from the house of Claude Barbin. It was in four volumes, and bore no name.
Her mother was sprung from an ancient family of Provence, among whom, says Auger, literary talent had long been a heritage; but the mother herself if we are to believe Mme. de La Fayette's biographers possessed no talent save that of intrigue.
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