INVENTORY #148948
Choix de Lettres de Madame de Sévigné extrait de L'Édition des Grands Écrivains de La France sous la direction de A. Regnier
SÉVIGNÉ, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de
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The Marquise de Sévigné (1626 – 1696) was a French aristocrat renowned for her letter-writing. Most of her letters, celebrated for their wit and vividness, were addressed to her daughter, Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné but her letters were copied and passed about, so that they were widely read in her own time. She is revered in France as one of the great icons of French 17th-century literature.Front cover inscription: "we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake" is an excerpt from Epilogue by Robert Browning.
Publication Info
- Publisher: Librairie Hachette
- Edition: Septieme edition
- Date Published: 1906
- Place Published: Paris
- ISBN: n/a
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- Condition: Good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
Bibliothèque des Écoles et des Familles. 255 p. 22 cm. Frontispiece portrait. 8 b&w plates. Red leather with gold impressing. Marbled text block edges and endpapers. Dampstains to both boards have caused wrinkling to endpapers and bleeding of colour to rear pages. Prize bookplate for Helen M. Semple, Sandwell School, Woodside Park on front free endpaper. Binding signed by Relfe Brussels/London. Pages browned. French text.