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SÉVIGNÉ (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de), was born in 1626, in Burgundy, at the Château de Bourbilly, to Celse-Bénigne de Rabutin, baron de Chantal, and Marie de Coulanges, daughter of Philippe de Coulanges, councilor of State. Marie de Rabutin was still in the cradle when she lost her father; Baron de Chantal was killed in 1627, fighting under the orders of the Marquis de Toiras, to repel the English from the island of Ré. His widow survived him only five years. Orphaned at the age of six, Marie de Rabutin was placed under the guardianship of her maternal grandfather until the year 1636, when she lost him. Since then she has remained under the supervision of the Abbé de Coulanges, her uncle. Ménage, who was given him as tutor, taught him Latin, Italian, and Spanish; the learned Chaplain also contributed to instructing him. To the serious lessons of these two masters succeeded those of an elegant and polite court, which began to serve as a model in Europe for grace of manners and delicacy of mind. She married young still in 1644: she had not reached her eighteenth year. The Marquis de Sévigné, whom she married, prodigal and passionate for pleasure, dissipated a good part of his property, and abandoned his wife for mistresses. Even during Madame de Sévigné's lifetime, her epistolary talent was famous at court and read more
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