Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette, 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.
- Occupation
- writer, salonnière, novelist, historian
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- March 18, 1634, March 16, 1634
- Died
- May 25, 1693
