num_pages: 538
description: This biography of Mme de Sevigne brings to life the world of seventeenth-century France, a mother and her daughter, a writer and her brilliant letters. The passion and the pathos of this correspondence brings us as close as we can come to the mind of a woman in the court of Louis XIV.
language: English
title: Madame de Sevigne: A Life and Letters
titlecomplete: Madame de Sevigne: A Life and Letters
genres: Biography, France, History, Nonfiction, Literature, 17th Century
ratings_count: 54
publisher: Columbia University Press