Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, also widely known as Madame de Sévigné or Mme de Sévigné, was a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. Most of her letters, celebrated for their wit and vividness, were addressed to her daughter, Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné. She is revered in France as one of the great icons of French 17th-century literature.
Marquise de Sévigné by Claude Lefèbvre (1665)
The title page of a 1745 English edition of Mme de Sévigné's letters.
Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné
Françoise-Marguerite de Sévigné, comtesse de Grignan, was a French aristocrat, remembered for the letters that her mother, Madame de Sévigné, wrote to her.
Portrait of the Countess of Grignan, after Louis Elle
Madame de Grignan, engraved portrait
So-called portrait of Francoise-Marguerite de Sevigne by Alexander Roslin