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

They were received with great applause; Madame de Sévigné highly praises them.

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

His memoirs, which are strictly confined to his personal experiences, obtained the approbation of two such undeniably competent judges as Condé and Madame de Sévigné, and are by no means unworthy of the honour.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

In those beautiful gardens had been seen promenading Corneille and Madame de Sévigné, Molière, Bossuet, Boileau, Racine, in the company of the great Condé.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor