#which was madame La Fayette or comtesse de Lafayette

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Valkyrie teases your OC Moon about the Musical Hamilton by singing the “Lafayette song”. Your OC has never heard of the musical.

“Dude, how do you think I got my name ?”

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French Novel’s

 Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac

  “Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Already deeply resentful of their wealth, when Bette learns that the man she is in love with plans to marry Hortense, she becomes consumed by the desire to exact her revenge and dedicates herself to the destruction of the Hulot family, plotting their ruin with patient, silent malice.” (Good Reads)

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

  “Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Data's is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration.” (Good Reads)

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

  “When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women's magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair.” (Good Reads)

 The Stranger by Albert Camus

  “Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in English in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.” (Good Read)

 Candide by Voltaire

  “Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for the Baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world.“ (Good Reads)

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo

  “This extraordinary historical novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest tortured by the specter of his own damnation. Shaped by a profound sense of tragic irony, it is a work that gives full play to Victor Hugo's brilliant historical imagination and his remarkable powers of description.” (Good Reads)

Les Miserable by Victor Hugo  

  “Introducing one of the most famous characters in literature, Jean Valeant ”the noble peasant imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread” Les Miserable ranks among the greatest novels of all time. In it, Victor Hugo takes readers deep into the Parisian underworld, immerses them in a battle between good and evil, and carries them to the barricades during the uprising of 1832 with a breathtaking realism that is unsurpassed in modern prose. Within his dramatic story are themes that capture the intellect and the emotions: crime and punishment, the relentless persecution of Valjean by Inspector Javert, the desperation of the prostitute Fantine, the amorality of the rogue Thanardier, and the universal desire to escape the prisons of our own minds. Les Miserable gave Victor Hugo a canvas upon which he portrayed his criticism of the French political and judicial systems, but the portrait that resulted is larger than life, epic in scope ”an extravagant spectacle that dazzles the senses even as it touches the heart.” (Good Reads)

Sarah’s Key By Tatiana de Rosney

  “Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel d’Hiv roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.“ (Good Reads)

  The Princesse de Calves by Madame de La Fayette

  “This new translation of The Princesse de Calves also includes two shorter works also attributed to Madme de Lafayette, The Princesse de Montpensier and The Comtesse de Tende.”(Good Read)

 Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

  “Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan shocked European literature and world consciousness. Nominally fiction but more rightly called "creative confessions," they told of the author's childhood in excoriating Paris slums, of service in the mud wastes of World War I and African jungles. Mixing unmitigated despair with Gargantuan comedy, they also created a new style, in which invective and obscenity were laced with phrases of unforgettable poetry. Celine's influence revolutionized the contemporary approach to fiction. Under a cloud for a period, his work is now acknowledged as the forerunner of today's "black comedy."” (Good Reads)