![]() She received a good education in his care and often referred to him in her correspondence as "le Bien Bon". ![]() When her grandfather, Philippe de Coulanges, died in 1636, her uncle, Christophe de Coulanges, abbé of Livry, became her guardian. She then passed into the care of her maternal grandparents. His wife did not survive him by many years, and Marie was left an orphan at the age of seven. Her father was killed during the English attack on the Isle of Rhé in July 1627, which began the Anglo-French War of 1627-1629. Her father, Celse Bénigne de Rabutin, baron de Chantal, was the son of Saint Jeanne Françoise de Chantal, a friend and disciple of Saint Francis de Sales her mother was Marie de Coulanges. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal was born in the fashionable Place des Vosges (then called the Place Royale), Paris, to an old and distinguished family from Burgundy. She is revered in France as one of the great icons of French 17th-century literature. ![]() Most of her letters, celebrated for their wit and vividness, were addressed to her daughter, Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné. ![]() Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (5 February 1626 – 17 April 1696), also widely known as Madame de Sévigné or Mme de Sévigné, was a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. Marquise de Sévigné by Claude Lefèbvre (1665) ![]()
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