In 1671 César de Saint-Réal published a treatise on secret history entitled Traités historiques de l’ usage de l’ histoire. The treatise proposed that individual psychology and human motives causes historical processes to take on their form. One year later he...
Madame de Lafayette (1634-1593) Richard Maxwell, author of the 2009 study The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950, argues that Madame de Lafayette, author of Princess of Montpensier (1662) and Princess of Cleves (1678) can be accredited as the beginning point in...
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