Originally published in 1936, this book presents an account of some aspects of the life of the renowned French letter-writer and aristocrat Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de S�vign� (1626-96). The text was written by the Cambridge literary critic Arthur Augustus Tilley (1851-1942) and is divided into four chapters: 'Mme de S�vign� and the news'; 'Mme de S�vign� and her friends'; 'Mme de S�vign� at Livry and Les Rochers'; 'Mme de S�vign� and her books'. Notes are incorporated throughout. This book ...
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Originally published in 1936, this book presents an account of some aspects of the life of the renowned French letter-writer and aristocrat Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de S�vign� (1626-96). The text was written by the Cambridge literary critic Arthur Augustus Tilley (1851-1942) and is divided into four chapters: 'Mme de S�vign� and the news'; 'Mme de S�vign� and her friends'; 'Mme de S�vign� at Livry and Les Rochers'; 'Mme de S�vign� and her books'. Notes are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the life and writings of Mme de S�vign� or seventeenth-century France.
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