BIB_ID
365122
Accession number
MA 750.3
Creator
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1626-1696.
Display Date
[1682] May 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (7 p., with address), 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.
With address panel and seal to "Montpellier / Monsieur / Monsieur le president / de Moulceau / a Montpellier."
Year and place of writing from published letter; identity of recipient from address panel.
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.
With address panel and seal to "Montpellier / Monsieur / Monsieur le president / de Moulceau / a Montpellier."
Year and place of writing from published letter; identity of recipient from address panel.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1911.
Summary
Being a letter written by both Madame de Sévigné and Jean Corbinelli; beginning with Madame de Sévigné relating that she has seen the Marquis de Toiras and found him worthy of his esteem; saying she has also seen Monsieur and Madame de Rohan and remarking on how thin they were; continuing with Jean Corbinelli saying he agrees with Madame de Sévigné in her assessment of the Marquis de Toiras; saying that Madame de Rohan remarked that he was still cold to her father; asking if he might warm up to him; concluding with a short paragraph by Madame de Sévigné urging him to rekindle his friendship with his friend as it is too much to be in exile and also to lose a friend.
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