Saturday, November 20, 2021

Excerpt from Madame de Sévigné's letter to Abbot Ménage, dated September 2/12 (New Style), 1656

Source:

Lettres, volume 1, pages 415 and 416, published by Hachette Monmerqué, 1862


The letter excerpt:

Aux Rochers, ce 12e septembre.
... Mandez-moi bien quelle réception vous aura faite cette belle reine de Suède.

English translation (my own):

Rochers, September 12.
... Tell me what reception you will have made of this beautiful queen of Sweden.


Above: Kristina.


Above: Madame de Sévigné.

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