Sévigné

American  

[sey-vee-nyey] / seɪ viˈnyeɪ /

noun

1. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Marquise de, 1626–96, French writer, especially of letters.

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Sévigné British  

/ seviɲe /

noun

1. 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

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Example Sentences

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 • Mar. 25, 2017

Living in Paris from her third to fourteenth years, she attended the College Sévigné, developed a linguistic talent which now allows her. to talk French, German, Danish and Russian.

From Time Magazine Archive

The true hour for virtues not the less real because sociable, virtues such as they were understood by Madame de Sévigné or Madame de Rambouillet, had not yet come.

From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jusserand, J. J.

“He honoured De Sévigné with a majority and turned him loose in Quebec.”

From The Road to Frontenac by Merwin, Samuel

Larousse says the double judgment was wrongly attributed to Mme. de Sévigné.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)