Sévigné

[ sey-vee-nyey ]

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noun

Ma·rie de Ra·bu·tin-Chan·tal [m, a, -, ree, d, uh, , r, a, -b, y, -ta, n, -shah, n, -, tal], Marquise de, 1626–96, French writer, especially of letters.

Sévigné

/ seviɲe /

Sévigné, Marquise de16261696FFrenchWRITING: letter writer Marquise de, title of Marie de Rabutin-Chantal. 1626–96, French letter writer. Her correspondence with her daughter and others provides a vivid account of society during the reign of Louis XIV

Her hair, dressed a la Sevigne, gave her a look of elegance; a necklace of pearls lay on her bosom like bubbles on snow.

Madame de Sevigne had an apartment and held her salon there for nearly twenty years.

Madame Sevigne was one of Corneille's warmest admirers, and did not join the company of Racine worshipers.

But Madame de Sevigne had no clear notion of suffering in anyone who was not a person of quality.

It can even go as far as weeping the traditional six tears, as Madame de Sevigne did for Andromaque.

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