Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1626-1696
Call Number:
49 2576
Image Count:
29
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
ALS from Madame de Sévigné to her daughter soon after she married and moved to Provence. The letter begins by assuring her daughter of a preference for her company over that of Mme. de Brissac and continues with a report on the weaknesses of her bro...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1626-1696., Sévigné, Charles, marquis de, 1648-1713., and Grignan, Françoise Marguerite de Sévigné, comtesse de, 1646-1705.
Subject (Topic):
Women, Conduct of life, Authors, French, Mothers and daughters, and Social life and customs
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780
Call Number:
LWL MSS 11 Box 8
Image Count:
43
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Madame du Deffand's diary, written in the hand of Jean-Francois Wiart, she having lost her sight in 1754, for the last months from July 1779 to September 1780 in which she records details of her dinner engagements with her circle of friends, the entri...
Description:
Marie Anne de Vichy Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697-1780), was married at 21 to her kinsman, Jean Baptiste de la Lande, marquis du Deffand. The marriage resulted in a separation as early as 1722. However, her intelligence, cynicism, and wit gained...
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780.
Subject (Topic):
Women, Conduct of life, Authors, French, and Social life and customs
Holograph diary of a stay in Brussels and France after the Battle of Waterloo. Many of the author's observations reflect the recent battle; she reports, for example, on the celebrations in Brussels when its inhabitants receive news of Napoleon's surr...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
France, Great Britain, and Belgium
Subject (Name):
Eaton, Charlotte Ann (Waldie), 1788-1859., Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610., Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821., Waldie, John, 1781-1862., and Watts, Jane (Waldie), 1793-1826.
Subject (Topic):
Theater, Travelers' writings, English, Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815, Women authors, Description and travel, and Social life and customs
Series I contains approximately a thousand letters, primarily personal correspondence among members of Louisa Siefert's family. The majority of the letters are between Siefert and her sister, Clemy (Siefert) Bost, and between Siefert and her mother, ...
Description:
Louisa Siefert (1845-1877), poet, was raised in Lyon as a Protestant by her parents Henry Siefert, vice-consul to Portugal, and Adele-Adrienne (Belz) Siefert. Her first book of poems, Rayons perdus, was published in 1868 to great acclaim; other colle...
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Asselineau, Charles, 1820-1874, Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882., Castelar, Emilio, 1832-1899, Chenavard, Paul Marc Joseph, 1807-1895., Des Essarts, Alfred Emmanuel Langlois, 1839-1909, Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885, Siefert, Louisa, 1845-1877, and Siefert family
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Authors, French, French literature, French poetry, Romanticism, Sentimentalism in literature, Tuberculosis, and Social life and customs
Series I contains approximately a thousand letters, primarily personal correspondence among members of Louisa Siefert's family. The majority of the letters are between Siefert and her sister, Clemy (Siefert) Bost, and between Siefert and her mother, ...
Description:
Louisa Siefert (1845-1877), poet, was raised in Lyon as a Protestant by her parents Henry Siefert, vice-consul to Portugal, and Adele-Adrienne (Belz) Siefert. Her first book of poems, Rayons perdus, was published in 1868 to great acclaim; other colle...
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Asselineau, Charles, 1820-1874, Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882., Castelar, Emilio, 1832-1899, Chenavard, Paul Marc Joseph, 1807-1895., Des Essarts, Alfred Emmanuel Langlois, 1839-1909, Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885, Siefert, Louisa, 1845-1877, and Siefert family
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Authors, French, French literature, French poetry, Romanticism, Sentimentalism in literature, Tuberculosis, and Social life and customs
Series I contains approximately a thousand letters, primarily personal correspondence among members of Louisa Siefert's family. The majority of the letters are between Siefert and her sister, Clemy (Siefert) Bost, and between Siefert and her mother, ...
Description:
Louisa Siefert (1845-1877), poet, was raised in Lyon as a Protestant by her parents Henry Siefert, vice-consul to Portugal, and Adele-Adrienne (Belz) Siefert. Her first book of poems, Rayons perdus, was published in 1868 to great acclaim; other colle...
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Asselineau, Charles, 1820-1874, Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882., Castelar, Emilio, 1832-1899, Chenavard, Paul Marc Joseph, 1807-1895., Des Essarts, Alfred Emmanuel Langlois, 1839-1909, Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885, Siefert, Louisa, 1845-1877, and Siefert family
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Authors, French, French literature, French poetry, Romanticism, Sentimentalism in literature, Tuberculosis, and Social life and customs
Series I contains approximately a thousand letters, primarily personal correspondence among members of Louisa Siefert's family. The majority of the letters are between Siefert and her sister, Clemy (Siefert) Bost, and between Siefert and her mother, ...
Description:
Louisa Siefert (1845-1877), poet, was raised in Lyon as a Protestant by her parents Henry Siefert, vice-consul to Portugal, and Adele-Adrienne (Belz) Siefert. Her first book of poems, Rayons perdus, was published in 1868 to great acclaim; other colle...
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Asselineau, Charles, 1820-1874, Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882., Castelar, Emilio, 1832-1899, Chenavard, Paul Marc Joseph, 1807-1895., Des Essarts, Alfred Emmanuel Langlois, 1839-1909, Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885, Siefert, Louisa, 1845-1877, and Siefert family
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Authors, French, French literature, French poetry, Romanticism, Sentimentalism in literature, Tuberculosis, and Social life and customs
