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Links to useful general information about Sevigne

Find out more about Mme de Grignan and her life

Roger Duch锚ne's work on Sevigne

You should be aware that this text dates from 1891. It provides a flavour of the French salon community.

 Bringing up girls

Take a look at the (1689) by Fran莽ois de la Motte F茅nelon, who wrote extensively on education in this period.

The letters we will be focussing on

The numbers of these letters are those given in the Lettres choisies (Gallimard coll, Folio classique, 1988). You can find an online edition of this here. Some of you may be working from other editions of the letters. With that in mind, I've also given the dates of each letter, and its 'destinataire', so you should be able to identify them in the edition you are working from:

Number	destinataire	date and place of writing
6	Mme de Grignan	Paris, 2 f茅vrier 1671
7	Mme de Grignan	Paris, 11 f茅vrier 1671
10	Mme de Grignan	Livry, 24 mars, 1671
11	Mme de Grignan	Paris, 6 mai 1671
16	Mme de Grignan	Les Rochers, 2 d茅c 1671
17	Mme de Grignan	Paris, 23 d茅c 1671
18	Mme de Grignan	Paris, 29 jan 1672
32	Mme de Grignan	Vichy, 4 juin 1676
34	Mme de Grignan	Paris, 16 juin 1677
37	Grignan	Paris, 27 mai 1678
41	Mme de Grignan	Livry, Printemps-茅t茅 1679
42	Mme de Grignan	Livry, Printemps-茅t茅 1679
43	Mme de Grignan	Livry, Printemps-茅t茅 1679
46	Mme de Grignan	Paris, 13 sept 1679
54	Mme de Grignan	Paris, 29 d茅c 1679
61	Mme de Grignan	Angers, 20 sept 1684
65	Mme de Grignan	Les Rochers, 15 nov 1684
70	Mme de Grignan	Les Rochers, 17 juin 1685
73	Mme de Grignan	Les Rochers, 15 ao没t 1685
81	Mme de Grignan	Rennes, 11 mai 1689
82	Mme de Grignan	Les Rochers, 23 avril 1690
84	Mme de Grignan	Les Rochers, 12 juil 1690
87	Charles de S茅vign茅	Grignan, 20 sept 1695