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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ...and modern Greek, it has been every where received with the greatest approbation.-'--Revue Ency. vol. 25, p. 508. S£vign£ (Madame de). Les Lettres de Madame de Sévigné, de sa famille, et de ses amis, nouvelle edition, publiée par M. de Monmerqué, avec une notice» par M. Saint-Surin. Paris, 1818, 10 vols. 8vo. " This (says Brunet)is the best edition of this immortal production; to it, however, should be added, Les Lettres inédite» de Mad. de Sévi gué, publiées à Paris, 1814,1 vol. 8vo.; also the Mémoires de M. de Coulangt's, suivis de Lettres inédites de Mud. de Sévigné, de son fils, de l'Abbé de Coulanges, d'Arnauld d'Andilly, d'Arnauld de Pomponnes, de Jean de la Fontaine; et d'autres jicrsonnages du même siècle, publiés par M. Monmerqué. Paris, 1820, 8vo. The contributions of La Fontaine consist of an Epistle in verse, to the Duke de Bouillon; Suite de la relation du voyage de Limoges; and three letters to M. Jaunart. M. Campenon, in one of the last editions of these letters, thus expresses himself: " What are the writings of this epoch, which make us best acquainted, with the events of the period, the great men distinguished in the Church, the army, the Ministry, and in the field of literature P which gives us the most correct estimate either of the agitated existence of the brilliant court of Louis XIV. or the recluse and studious manners of the Port Royalists? Do the best pages of Pélisson in the defence of Fouquet, create in us a greater interest in the fate of the accused than the rapid and animated sketches of Madame de Sévigné? Do not the few lines she has dedicated to the death of Turenne produce a more profound im...
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