Selected Letters

Selected Letters
ISBN-10
014044405X
ISBN-13
9780140444056
Series
Selected Letters
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
319
Language
English
Published
1982
Publisher
Penguin
Author
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné

Description

Describes the social and intellectual life of seventeenth-century France, including gossip about the court of King Louis XIV

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