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Nov 30, 2022 · At the age of twenty-five, the widow was left with two young children, a daughter named Francoise-Marguerite and a son named Charles. In summing up her loveless and only marriage, de Sévigné wrote, “Matrimony is a very dangerous disorder; I had rather drink.”.
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.
Her granddaughter Madame de Simiane supervised the first edition of her letters to Madame de Grignan in 1726; Chevalier de Perrin published a corrected edition of these letters in 1734, 1737, and 1754. An edition of newly discovered letters was published in 1773.
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.
Feb 5, 2015 · After her daughter Françoise married in 1669 and moved to Provence two years later, Sévigné began to write to her. On 6 February 1671, Sévigné sent the first of what would become more than a thousand letters to her daughter.
Oct 1, 2024 · She produced letters a few times a week that averaged up to 30 pages most of them starting in 1671 when her daughter married and relocated to Provence. Suffering in the absence of her daughter, she began her now legendary correspondences.
The separation from her daughter provoked acute loneliness in Mme de Sévigné, and out of this grew her most important literary achievement, her letters to Mme de Grignan, which were written without literary intention or ambition.
