BIB_ID
365076
Accession number
MA 750.1
Creator
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1626-1696.
Display Date
[1685] Nov. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item ( 9 p.), unbound ; 20.5 cm
Notes
Jean Corbinelli was a French writer and friend of Madame de Sévigné.
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed by Madame de Sévigné. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Philippe Moulceau was the President of the Chambre des Comptes at Montpellier and friend and correspondent of Madame de Sévigné.
Year of writing from published letter.
Part of a collection of autograph letters signed by Madame de Sévigné. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Philippe Moulceau was the President of the Chambre des Comptes at Montpellier and friend and correspondent of Madame de Sévigné.
Year of writing from published letter.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1911.
Summary
Saying she had not received a letter from him in fifteen months; saying she has been staying with her son and his wife; saying she had been in a carriage accident, almost drowned and suffered a leg injury; saying she arrived in Bâville and was welcomed by her daughter and all the Grignans; saying she found Corbinelli more philosophical and that she is jealous of his freedom; adding that he converts more heretics by his good sense and by not irritating them; commenting that everyone now is a missionary, everyone has a mission, especially the magistrates and governors of the provinces; commenting on the death of the prince de Conti; congratulating him on the marriage of his daughter; in a note, written as a postscript by Corbinelli, he comments on his jealousy of the relationship between Madame de Sévigné and Moulceau and also congratulates Moulceau on the marriage of his daughter and the prospects for a grandchild.
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