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LETTERS FROM MADAME LA MARQUISE DE Sévigné (389 pp.)-Selecfed and translated by Violet Hammersley-Harcourt, Brace...
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...
Neglected on the beach was a low, thick-walled building-newly painted a bright yellow, bordered with flower boxes and surmounted by an elegant sign, A la Marquise de Sėvigné (after a famous chain of Paris teashops). Few of the English and French children who bought candy and ice cream there on Bastille Day knew that the building had been a Nazi pillbox...
...persistence and to General Eisenhower's common sense is due the credit for this happy state of affairs. When, solely on his own initiative, General de Gaulle visited Normandy in June, he left behind François Coulet as Regional Commissioner and Colonel Pierre de Chévigné as military representative with instructions to recruit and train a French fighting force in Normandy. Upon his return to England, De Gaulle called on General Eisenhower and casually told him what had been done...
Vichy was snowbound. The worst blizzard in 50 years swept over the provisional capital of France, blocked the roads, tied up the railways. Snow fell on the Sévignè Pavilion, where Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, 84, awaited the coming of U. S. Ambassador William Daniel Leahy. It piled in high drifts in the nearby mountains of Auvergne; the U. S. charge d'affaires, driving to meet the new Ambassador, got only 20 miles from the capital. Still partially blacked out each night, cold, cheerless, waiting, Vichy lay paralyzed under the storm, a fitting symbol...