Letter from Madame de Sévigné to Madame de Grignan, her daughter

Presented in the Madame de Sévigné Room of the Carnavalet Museum in 1912, this handwritten note is exceedingly rare, since most of the letters from the marchioness to her daughter were destroyed. The correspondence of Madame de Sévigné—nearly 1,372 letters have been inventoried—exists...