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She is the chief chronicler of the three stirring and eventful epochs which constitute what is commonly called the Age of Louis Quatorze: the choicest materials for its history are to be found in her Letters; and her private life cannot be told without connecting it, at many trying and interesting conjunctures, with the lives of her most illustrious and celebrated contemporaries. The pupil of Ménage and Chapelain, the pride of the Hôtel Rambouillet, the object of vain pursuit to such men as Bussy, Conti, Fouquet, "MADAME DE SEVIGNE, like La Fontaine, like Montaigne, is one of those subjects which are perpetually in the order of the day in France. She is not only a classic, she is an acquaintance, and, better still, a neighbour and a friend." She will never be this, or anything like it, in England. Her name is equally familiar, almost as much a household word; and there are always amongst us a select few who find an inexhaustible source of refined enjoyment in her letters. The Horace Walpole set affected to know them by heart: George Selwyn meditated an edition of them, and preceded Lady Morgan in that pilgrimage to the Rochers which she describes so en- and Turenne, the friend or associate of thusiastically in her "Book of the Boudoir." Even in our time it would have been dangerous to present oneself often at Holland House or the Berrys', without being tolerably well up in them. Mackintosh rivalled Walpole in exalting her. But the taste is not on the increase: the wor de Retz, Rochefoucauld, Corneille, Racine, Molière, La Fontaine, Pascal, Bossuet, La Grande Mademoiselle, the Scudérys, Madame la Fayette, Madame Maintenon - in short, of almost every Frenchman French woman of note for more than half a century, she might be made the central figure of a series of historic groups, had she never been known to fame as a or argument that all who wish to become intimately acquainted with her, to make her (what Sainte-Beuve says she is in France) a neighbour and a friend, will repair by preference to French writers: to the exhaustive "Mémoires" of Walckenaer, or the critical "Notice" of Mesnard.* Por son frankly admitted that, consummate Grecian as he was, he never read a Greek play as easily as an English newspaper; and there is a numerous class in this shippers decline apace: we hear of no recent English visitors to the Breton shrine: the famous flourish about the Grande Made-letter-writer. Neither can we admit the moiselle marriage, with the account of the death of Vattel, form the sum of what is correctly known on this side of the Channel of her epistolary excellence: her personal history is not known at all, and maternal love is the only quality which nineteen cultivated people out of twenty could specify in illustration of her character. Yet no man or woman ever lived who was less national (in the exclusive sense) or more cosmopolitan in heart and mind, in feeling and in thought. It is not French nature, but human nature in its full breadth and variety, that she represents or typifies. Her sparkling fancy, her fine spirit of observation, her joyous confiding (and self-confiding) frankness, her utter absence of affectation, her generosity, her loyalty, her truth, are of no clime. Indeed we are by no means sure that her most sterling qualities will not just now be best understood, felt, and appreciated out of France. • Madame de Sevigne, Her Correspondence and Contemporaries. By the Comtesse de Puliga. 2 Vols. London, 1873. ↑ Sainte-Beuve, "Causeries de Lundi." M. Paul Mesnard is the author of the "Notice biographique" prefixed to the annotated edition of the Letters in fourteen volumes, royal octavo, forming the commencement of the collection entitled, Paris, 1862. The fullest account of Madame de Sevigne and her times (to 1680) is to be found in the "Les Grands Ecrivains de la France." Hachette, "Memoires touchant la Vie et les Ecrits de Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Dame de Bourbilly, Marquise de Sevigne," &c., &c. By Baron Walckenaer, six volumes with the Continuations. Amongst the of 1570 with a Treatise on her epistolary style by M. abridged editions of the Letters, the best is the one Suard. There is a useful English work, published in 1842, entitled " Madame de Sevigne and her Contemporaries," composed of a series of biographical notices, one of which, of about thirty pages, is devoted to Mesdames de Sevigne et Grignan. |