Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Madame de Sevigne, French epistolary writer famous for her letters to her daughter Madame de Grignan, 1626-1696. She wears a skull cap and bows, hair in ringlets, black silk mantua dress with lace collar and cuffs decorated with ribbons. She holds a quill pen and letter. After a portrait in oils by Pierre Mignard and a miniature on vellum in the editor's collection. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Galerie Francaise de Femmes Celebres, Paris, 1827.

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