BIB_ID
380208
Accession number
MA 5126.5
Creator
Simiane, Pauline Adhémar de Monteil de Grignan, marquise de, 1674-1737.
Display Date
[1733] June 28.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of The Heineman Foundation, for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection ; 1982.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 21.1 cm.
Notes
Correction to text at bottom of first page; Poirier is crossed out and replaced by "de S." This could be a Sévigné allusion made in a different hand. The marquise de Sévigné died in 1696.
Year of writing from published letter.
Year of writing from published letter.
Summary
Congratulating him on the marriage of his sister [Marie-Elisabeth du Trousset d'Héricourt]; lamenting his father's illness; telling him of a letter that she has received from Mlle de Poirier, whose letters she greatly admires; worrying that she will not be able to respond well enough; discussing style and asking for help from M. d'Héricourt with the editing and delivery of her reply; explaining that Belombre is very isolated and that she is going to be alone with the chevalier de Castellane [Boniface de Castellane Esparron]; recounting that Ligondès [Claude-Hilaire, chevalier de Ligondez] is going to Bandol, that M. [Jean-François] de la Boulie, [seigneur d'Aigalades] will receive Mme de Montauban [Françoise d'Yse de Saléon] and that Dantelmy is in Aix.
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