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wrote the first of her extant letters: to her most famous cousin, the writer of romans à clef who is generally known as Bussy-Rabutin
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Some editions place this letter in 1647, as a...
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Marie de Sévigné
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's letters first appeared anonymously in her cousin's Les mémoires de messire Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, which was published at Paris just six months after her death.
Ojala, Jeanne, and William Ojala. Madame de Sévigné: A Seventeenth-Century Life. Berg.
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Williams, Charles G. S. Madame de Sévigné. Twayne.
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Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, and Marie de Sévigné. Les mémoires de messire Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy. J. Anisson, 1696.