SÉVIGNÉ (Marquesa de). LETTRES de Madame la Marquise de Sévigné, a Madame la Comtesse de Grignan, sa Fille. A ...

SÉVIGNÉ (Marquesa de). LETTRES de Madame la Marquise de Sévigné, a Madame la Comtesse de Grignan, sa Fille. A Amsterdam. 1775-1804.

SÉVIGNÉ (Marquesa de)

LETTRES de Madame la Marquise de Sévigné, a Madame la Comtesse de Grignan, sa Fille. Nouvelle Édition, Corrigée & augmentée de Lettres nouvellement recouvrées, & de la Marquise de Simiane, la petite-Fille. A Amsterdam: Par la Compgnie, 1775.

9 v.; 170 mm. 6th volume of the 1804’s edition; full calf, heavly tired; water stained.

Added edition of the famous letters of the Marquise de Sévigné addressed to her daughter Françoise Marguerite, Countess of Grignan. The letters are recognized by the break with the totally normalized epistolary style that was then in force, presenting a spontaneous and sometimes disordered structure, just like in a conversation. The Marquise de Sévigné, of noble origin, was orphaned at the age of six, having been entrusted to the care of her uncle Philip II of Coulanges, from whom she obtained an excellent education. In 1644 she married Henri de Sévigné, with whom she had two children. In 1651, her husband was killed in a duel, and the Marquise remained attending the Parisian court and dedicating herself to the education of her children. In 1671, his daughter, by marriage, left Paris, maintaining an intense epistolary correspondence with her mother, exceeding 1700 letters, most of them written in the first seven years after the separation. The work went through several editions, the first being printed clandestinely in 1725, having been enormously successful and successive editions were added not only in the original language, but also in translations. Unusual.

 

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