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In 1669 her beautiful daughter, Françoise Marguerite, married the Count de Grignan and then moved with him to Provence, where he had been appointed lieutenant general of that province. 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 ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Most of her letters, celebrated for their wit and vividness, were addressed to her daughter, Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné. She is revered in France as one of the great icons of French 17th-century literature.
Any consideration of intimacy in the Sévi gné-Grignan relationship must rely exclusively on the mother's perspective of that relationship because Grignan's letters to Sévigné were destroyed by her own daughter, Pauline de Simiane, when Sévigné's letters were first published in 1725.'
Openly admitting her idolatrous love for her daughter, Sévigné could not accept the daughter’s absence. The solution was the initiation of a correspondence between mother and daughter, which would eventually include hundreds of letters.
Apr 23, 2012 · On May 27, 1680, Sévigné wrote to her daughter, as she did hundreds of times in her life, to lament their separation, to express her love, and to tell the news of the day. On this occasion, she was saddened and angered by what her son Charles had recently done to fuel one of his habitual spending sprees.
- Roland Racevskis
- 2012
Nov 30, 2022 · Madame de Sévigné’s iconic correspondence begins. The correspondence for which she became famous started when her daughter, Françoise-Marguerite, moved to Provence with her husband Comte de Grignan, where he could serve as viceroy. The separation from her daughter was shattering.
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Although Mossiker has called her an allumeuse (a lighter of fires), Sévigné wanted to maintain her independence, to continue to make her own decisions and to advance the interests of her children, especially her daughter.
