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DE SEVIGNE AND OTHERS 187 The novels of Mile, de Scudery, while interesting as portraitures, are not thoroughly reliable in their represen- tation of the sentiments and environment of the times; on the other hand, those of Mme. De La Fayette are imper- sonal no one of the characters is recognizable; yet their atmosphere is that of the court of Louis XIV. , and the language, never so correct as to be unnatural, is that used at the time. Her novels reflect perfectly the society of the court and t...he manner of life there. "Thus, " says M. D'Haussonville, "she was the first to produce a novel of observation and sentiment, the first to paint elegant manners as they really were. " Her first production was La Princesse de Montpensier (1662); in 1670, appeared Zayde, it was ostensibly the work of Segrais, her teacher and a writer much in vogue at the time; in 1678, La Princesse de Cleves, her master- piece, stirred up one of the first real quarrels of literary criticism. For a long time after the appearance of that book, society was divided into two classes the pros and the cons.
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