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Lafayette's Confidence Game: Plausibility and Private Confession in La Princesse de Cleves and Zaide

2002; University of Nebraska Press; Volume: 27; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/frf.2002.0012

1534-1836

Peter Shoemaker,

Historical Art and Culture Studies

In April 1678, soon after the publication of the comtesse de Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves, the Mercure Galant proposed the following question, now legendary in the annals of literary history, to its readers: