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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, connue comme la marquise n. 1 ou, plus simplement, Madame de Sévigné, née le 5 février 1626 à Paris à la paroisse Saint-Paul 1, et morte le 17 avril 1696 au château de Grignan (en Provence ), est une épistolière française.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (5 February 1626 – 17 April 1696), also widely known as Madame de Sévigné or Mme de Sévigné, was a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing.
Madame de Sévigné was France’s preeminent writer of epistles in the seventeenth century. She appears at first glance to possess few philosophical credentials because she neither received formal philosophical instruction nor composed philosophical treatises.
Nov 30, 2022 · Who was Madame de Sévigné (1626 – 1696) and why are we still reading her collected letters more than three hundred years later? She lived in complicated times— during the reign of Louis XIV — and she was a gifted chronicler. To this day, 1,372 of her letters survive, mostly written to her beloved daughter, Françoise-Marguerite de ...
May 7, 2024 · Madame de Sévigné (1626 –1696) lived over three hundred years ago, and yet her letters are still assigned in French classes and read by Francophiles to this day. Her letters are set during the back drop of the reign of Louis XIV, the "Sun King."
French aristocrat and landowner best known for the lively series of letters which she wrote to her daughter over the course of more than 20 years. Name variations: Marie Rabutin-Chantal; Marie de Rabutin Chantal; Madame de Sévigné; Marquise de Sevigne. Born in Paris, France, on February 5, 1626; died on April 17, 1696, at Les Rochers ...
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Jan 19, 1999 · Madame de Sévigné, née Marie de Rabutin-Chantal (1626-1696), est une familière du Marais, quartier aristocratique de Paris dont elle connaît tous les salons. Elle a lu les romans précieux de M lle de Scudéry, connaît la littérature italienne dans le texte et se tient au courant de tout ce qui...
