Question
As a man in this novel hides in a flower garden, he becomes madly jealous after the protagonist tells her husband she’s in love with a man she refuses to name, not realizing she means him. In a sexually-coded scene in this novel, the protagonist and her lover flirt gleefully while forging a letter, resulting in a very bad fake that fails to convince the Queen and ends her affair with the protagonist’s uncle. Nancy Mitford’s introduction to her translation of this novel chronicles its author’s time with (*) court ladies like Henrietta of England. This anonymously-published novel was likely revised by Rochefoucauld (“rohsh-foo-KO”), its author’s lover. At this novel’s end, its protagonist chooses not to marry the Duke de Nemours after meeting him at Henry II’s court. For 10 points, name this novel about Mademoiselle de Chartres, which is often called France’s first modern novel and is attributed to Madame de La Fayette. ■END■
Summary
2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 14 | 79% | 0% | 0% | 127.55 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Nathan Zhang | AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | 101 | 10 |
Will Alston | LMM's LLM MLM | A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | 106 | 10 |
Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | 118 | 10 |
Mitch McCullar | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | The Oldest Men in the World | 119 | 10 |
Henry Atkins | The Empire Bikes Back | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 119 | 10 |
Charles Hang | Les Missourables | NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | 123 | 10 |
Matt Lafer | when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | The Jeam Team | 135 | 10 |
Andrew Wang | Punished "Venom" BHSU | We Need New Names | 135 | 10 |
Rahul Keyal | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | 143 | 10 |
Alexander Nero | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 152 | 0 |
Connor Mayers | Lisan al-Quib | Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | 152 | 10 |
Rohan Kher | var merchants | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 152 | 0 |
Emmett Laurie | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | The Dyatlov Passement incident | 152 | 10 |
Jason Cheng | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 152 | 0 |
Matt Weiner | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | 152 | 0 |
Isaac Kirk-Davidoff | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | var merchants | 152 | 0 |