Madame De Sevigne: A Life and Letters

by F M O S S I K E R (Author)

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Paperback
1985
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-- Francine du Plessix Gray, New York Times Book Review

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 538
Edition: Columbia University Press Morningside ed
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 27 Jun 1985
ISBN 10: 0231061536
ISBN 13: 9780231061537
Book Overview: This biography of Mme de Sevigne brings to life the world of seventeenth-century France, a mother and her daughter, a writer and her brilliant letters. The passion and the pathos of this correspondence brings us as close as we can come to the mind of a woman in the court of Louis XIV.

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Vividly evokers [Mmd de Sevigne], her intimate circle, and her era in this scintillating enjoyable book grounded in good scholarship. -- Edmund Fuller Wall Street Journal