BIB_ID
365080
Accession number
MA 750.4
Creator
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1626-1696.
Display Date
"le jour des Rois" [1687] Jan. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (6 p.), unbound ; 20.9 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, place of writing and identity of recipient 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, place of writing and identity of recipient from published letter.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1911.
Summary
Discussing old age; commenting that extreme old age is frightful and humiliating as she and Corbinelli have observed in the abbé de Coulanges making them never want to reach that period; adding that they have plenty of time left but she couldn't resist the chance to write him on the subject; including a note from Corbinelli, as a postscript to the letter of Madame de Sévigné; commenting on the benefits and worries of being a grandfather.
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