BIB_ID
365084
Accession number
MA 750.8
Creator
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1626-1696.
Display Date
[1687] Nov. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (8 p.), unbound ; 19.6 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 and 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 and place of writing and identity of recipient from published letter.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1911.
Summary
Commencing with a letter from Corbinelli; discussing a gift of twelve bottles of thyme-water to the son of a friend; discussing matters of jurisprudence that interest him; following with a letter from Madame de Sévigné saying she has never met such rivals; commenting on issues of justice and her pleasure at the justice rendered by the M. de Vardes [François-René Crespin du Bec] towards him.
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