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

Her hair, dressed a la Sevigne, gave her a look of elegance; a necklace of pearls lay on her bosom like bubbles on snow.

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Madame de Sevigne had an apartment and held her salon there for nearly twenty years.

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Madame Sevigne was one of Corneille's warmest admirers, and did not join the company of Racine worshipers.

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But Madame de Sevigne had no clear notion of suffering in anyone who was not a person of quality.

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It can even go as far as weeping the traditional six tears, as Madame de Sevigne did for Andromaque.

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