Les angoysses douloureuses qui procedent damours by Hélisenne de Crenne

"Les angoysses douloureuses qui procedent damours" by Hélisenne de Crenne is a sentimental novel published in 1538, often considered the first French sentimental novel. The story follows Hélisenne, married at eleven, who falls passionately in love with a young man named Guénélic. Her forbidden desire leads to brutal punishment from her jealous husband, who beats and imprisons her. Through letters and secret writings, Hélisenne chronicles her anguish while Guénélic embarks on a quest to rescue her, accompanied by his friend Quézinstra. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Crenne, Hélisenne de, 1510?-1560?
Title Les angoysses douloureuses qui procedent damours
Original Publication France: Denys de Harsy, 1539.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Angoisses_douloureuses_qui_proc%C3%A8dent_d%27amour
Credits Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 40.5 (College-level). Difficult to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Fiction -- Early works to 1800
Subject Married people -- Fiction -- Early works to 1800
Subject French fiction -- 16th century
Category Text
eBook-No. 71225
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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