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There are also the love letters. After he has been unmanned Abelard writes Heloise: "It will always be the highest love to show none." Ninon de 1'Enclos propositions the Marquis de Sévign...
...physical vitality and artistic achievements. You can say I haven't met a soul who qualifies. I'll have a child - that's a necessary part of experience. I'll write stories, novels, poetry. There'll be a salon like Mme Sévigné's. ... I want the sensitivity and understanding of Katherine Mansfield and the penetration of George Sand. ... I want to live to be a smart old witch who rules with an iron sceptre. . . . But one thing is sure, anyhow. I'll never be crying my heart out over...
This was an age of letter-writing among the ladies of the period. Most of them wrote about the trivialities of Court life and paid floods of compliments to the King and the "reigning mistress ;" few ventured upon criticisms. Those letters of de Scudéry, de Sévigné, de Grignan or de Maintenon were obsequious in character, unless they engaged in abstract discussion of the Arts or turned to the contemplation of Nature, which was the rarest of expedients. The letters of de Maintenon (widow of the poet Scrarron) were naturally centred upon the King...