Madame de Sévigné

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Madame de Sévigné was a 17th-century French aristocrat and celebrated letter-writer whose witty, detailed correspondence offers a vivid portrait of the court of Louis XIV and French society of her time.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf 17th-century writer
French aristocrat
epistolarian
letter writer
person
associatedWithMonarch Louis XIV of France NERFINISHED
birthDate 1626-02-05
birthPlace Paris, France NERFINISHED
burialPlace Grignan, Drôme, France NERFINISHED
child Charles de Sévigné NERFINISHED
Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship France
deathDate 1696-04-17
deathPlace Grignan, Drôme, France NERFINISHED
education private education
era 17th century
father Celse-Bénigne de Rabutin NERFINISHED
fullName Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné NERFINISHED
gender female
genre letters
honorificTitle Marquise de Sévigné NERFINISHED
influenced French epistolary literature
knownFor detailed correspondence
portrayal of 17th-century French society
portrayal of the court of Louis XIV
witty letters
language French
literaryMovement Classicism NERFINISHED
marriageDate 1644
mother Marie de Coulanges NERFINISHED
name Marie de Rabutin-Chantal NERFINISHED
notableCorrespondent Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné NERFINISHED
Madame de Grignan NERFINISHED
primaryCorrespondenceRecipient her daughter Françoise-Marguerite NERFINISHED
relative Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy NERFINISHED
Saint Jane Frances de Chantal NERFINISHED
religion Roman Catholicism
residence Château des Rochers-Sévigné, Brittany NERFINISHED
Grignan, Drôme, France NERFINISHED
Paris
surface form: Paris, France
socialCircle French aristocracy
court of Louis XIV NERFINISHED
spouse Henri de Sévigné NERFINISHED
spouseOccupation Breton nobleman
styleCharacterization detailed
lively
witty
subjectOf Lettres de Madame de Sévigné (collection) NERFINISHED
workPublishedPosthumously Lettres de Madame de Sévigné NERFINISHED

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Early Modern French associatedWithAuthor Madame de Sévigné
Paul Scarron influenced Madame de Sévigné