Letters from Spain : a seventeenth-century French noblewoman at the Spanish Royal Court /
Villars, Marie Gigault de Bellefonds,marquise de,1624-1706,author.
Hester, Nathalie,1970-editor,translator.
Letters translated from French into English by the editor.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The other voice -- A diplomatic life -- Women and the epistolary arts -- The Marquise de Villars, letter writer and travel writer -- The self-fashioning of an ambassadress -- The extant letters of the Marquise de Villars -- A note on the translation -- Letters from Spain (1679-1681) -- Appendix: Three Additional Letters by the Marquise de Villars. Letter A: To the Marquise de Sévigné, Paris, August 25, 1673 -- Letter B: To Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Turin, November 1, 1676 80 -- Letter C: To Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Turin, September 11, 1677.
Villars, Marie Gigault de Bellefonds, marquise de, 1624-1706
Villars, Marie Gigault de Bellefonds, marquise de, 1624-1706
Diplomats' spouses
Courts and courtiers
Diplomats' spouses
Manners and customs
Travel
Lettres de Madame la Marquise de Villars.
Letters from Spain