Originally published in 1936, this book presents an account of some aspects of the life of the renowned French letter-writer and aristocrat Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de S vign (1626-96). The text was written by the Cambridge literary critic Arthur Augustus Tilley (1851-1942) and is divided into four chapters: 'Mme de S vign and the news'; 'Mme de S vign and her friends'; 'Mme de S vign at Livry and Les Rochers'; 'Mme de S vign and her books'. Notes are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the life and writings of Mme de S vign or seventeenth-century France.
