Sévigné

[ sey-vee-nyey ]

noun

1. Ma·rie de Ra·bu·tin-Chan·tal [m, a, -, ree, d, uh, , r, a, -b, y, -ta, n, -shah, n, -, tal], Marquise de, 1626–96, French writer, especially of letters.

Sévigné

/ seviɲe /

noun

1. Sévigné, Marquise de16261696FFrenchWRITING: letter writer Marquise de, title of Marie de Rabutin-Chantal. 1626–96, French letter writer. Her correspondence with her daughter and others provides a vivid account of society during the reign of Louis XIV

Example Sentences

Eve Babitz is a little like Madame de Sevigne, that inveterate letter-writer of Louis XIV’s time, transposed to the Chateau Marmont in the late 20th-Century--lunching, chatting, dressing, loving and crying in Hollywood, that latter-day Versailles.

From Los Angeles Times

Philippe Sellier, a literature professor at Paris IV university, added that Madame de La Fayette, along with the aristocratic writers Madame de Sévigné and Mademoiselle de Scudéry, formed what he called a “feminine avant-garde”.

From The Guardian

Cream of lettuce Bostonienne streamed from a ladle at the Hotel Commodore in 1933; a velouté of lettuce from a larger one aboard the Paquebot Liberté, during a trans-Atlantic voyage in 1959 — after which you might have lunched on cream of lettuce at Harrods and floated home buoyed by a velouté of lettuce Sévigné.

From New York Times

I was instantly hooked and spent the next couple of days in the library poring over dusty old anthologies of old letters, blown away by the turn of phrase and epistolary skill displayed by people like Mark Twain and Marie de Sévigné.

From Los Angeles Times

Madame de Sevigne is also often quoted as providing evidence that the French were the first to put milk in their tea.

From BBC