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Word: chantal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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SISTER MARY HELEN Mt. de Chantal Visitation Academy Wheeling, W.Va...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 25, 1957 | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

Louis XIV ruled an empire on which the sun quickly set, but its literary lights -Corneille, Racine, Pascal, La Fontaine-still glow. Among them was Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné, whom generations of critics have crowned "the queen of letter writers." In this selection of 272 out of many hundreds of De Sévigné letters, the diadem seems to have its fair share of paste jewels, but it is worn with a regal flourish and idiosyncratic authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queen of Letters | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

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