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Author: Sévigné, Marie de

Pseudonyms:
Spouse/other names:de Rabutin, Chantal
Gender:female
Year of birth:1626
Year of death:1696
About her personal situation:According to Desplantes/Pouthier (1890), husband was killed in a duel. (p.94) standardizingjul12jdg: Origin • Location where born : Paris 05-02-1626 • Locations where lived : Grignan, Les Rochers, Paris • Location where died : Grignan 17-04-1696 National identity • Nationality : French • Mother tongue : French Marital status : married (1644), widowed (1651) Number of children : 2 (1 daughter : Françoise-Marguerite ; 1 son : Charles) Social class : nobility Religion/ideology : unknown

Countries:France
Languages:French
Relations to other authors: Grandmother of Simiane, Pauline Adhémar de Monteil de Grignan, Marquise de

Friend of Motteville, Madame de
Friend of Lafayette, Marie-Madeleine de

About her professional situation:standardizingjul12jdg: Profession(s) and activities : - letter writer Languages in which she published : - French Collaboration/connections with male authors : unknown Memberships : unknown
Elements of bibliography:Mentioned in: - La Porte 1769 (see hyperlink for list) - Boudier de Villemert 1778 - Briquet 1804 - Jacquinet, Les femmes de France poètes et prosateurs, 1886 - Henri Carton, Histoire des femmes ecrivains de la France, 1886 - Desplantes et Pouthier, 1890 - Larnac, Histoire de la littérature féminine en France, 1921 - Mitterand, Littérature XVIIe 1987 p. 345-353 - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "With the exception of eight letters, all the manuscripts of her letters were burnt with her daughter's [...]". - Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) II, 462, 485, 519. - Debeljak, Pregled, 1912 Cf. - Duchêne, R., Madame de Sévigné, ou la chance d'être femme. Paris, 1982 - Bonvalet, Nicole, "Lorsque les femmes lisent Madame de Sévigné", in Oeuvres & Critiques V-1 (1980), p. 121-142. p. 121: "Les femmes de lettres [..] se sont généralement attiré beaucoup plus de fervents admirateurs parmi les critiques de l'autre sexe; un simple coup d'oeil aux bibliographies consacrées à Christine de Pisan, Marguerite de Navarre, Louis [sic] Labé, Madeleine de Scudéry, George Sand, Colette et bien d'autres suffirait à nous en convaincre. Madame de Sévigné, à cet égard, constitue une notable exception. " - Montfort Howard, Catherine, Les Fortunes de Madame de Sévigné au XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles. Tübingen/Paris, Gunter Narr/Jean-Michel Place, 1982.
Websites: SIEFAR: Boudier de Villemert
SIEFAR: Briquet
Madame de Sévigné on Wikipedia
Women Writers' Network: list La Porte 1769

Editors: Emma van den Eynde (update on 12 December 2009)
Emma van den Eijnde (update on 22 May 2010)
Janouk de Groot (update on 13 July 2012)
Janouk de Groot (update on 09 August 2012)
Tanja Badalic (update on 22 August 2012)
Suzan van Dijk (update on 16 February 2013)

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E 1 *Marie de Sévigné, the author ()
E 2 Lettres [de Madame de Sévigné] (1734)

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