Author: Sévigné, Madame De [ Rabutin-Chantal, Marie de ]
Title: Lettres De Madame De Sévigné Précédées D'Une Notice Historique Et Littéraire
Description: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, Paris, 1855, 1st edition thus. Half green calf over marbled boards, VG. xvi+556pp, b/w frontis, marbled endpapers, red morocco lettering piece, sporadic foxing to the pages, faint water stain to the top margin just affecting the text, offsetting from the frontis to the title, leather rubbed, a solid reading copy. Booksellers ticket of Rolandi London on the verso of the endpaper. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ A collection of 279 letters from the French aristocrat Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné [ 1626 - 1696 ], culled from the many she wrote to her daughter over a thirty year period. Noted for their wit & descriptions of life in the 17th century. The letters here cover the period from 1655 - 1696 with the marjority written in the 1670s.

Keywords: biography, letters, french history, history