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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne was a French noblewoman and writer renowned for her extensive correspondence. Her letters offer valuable insights into the social and cultural life of 17th-century France. more

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“long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.”