Note 265 — BOOK IV
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Marie Madeleine Comtesse de La Fayette (1634-1693), née Pioche de La Vergne, daughter of the Governor of the Havre, and the intimate friend of La Rochefoucauld. She made a name in letters by her novels, Zaïde the Princesse de Clèves, etc., and also wrote an Histoire et Henriette d'Angleterre.—T.