Lettres de Madame de Sévigné gathers the celebrated correspondence of Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, one of the great letter-writers of seventeenth-century France. Written chiefly to her daughter, the letters offer a vivid, witty chronicle of life at the court of Louis XIV and in French society.
Please note that this edition is in French, prefaced by a notice on her life and a treatise on her epistolary style. The letters are prized as masterpieces of French prose and as a record of their age. This free EPUB edition presents the complete text for readers of French and of early modern French culture.