Download or read book Madame de SŽvignŽ written by Frances Mossiker and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Mme de Sevigne brings to life the world of seventeenth-century France, a mother and her daughter, a writer and her brilliant letters. The passion and the pathos of this correspondence brings us as close as we can come to the mind of a woman in the court of Louis XIV.