Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Dictionary of Madame De Sévigné, Vol. 1 of 2
Those who are the closest students of the social and political life of France covered by the Sevigne correspondence, that is, roughly speaking, with the concurrent years of the youth and brilliant middle age of le roi-soleil, cannot fail to be struck firstly, with the very large number of things and persons of importance, thumb-nail, subsidiary portraits, that F itzgerald has woven into his Gobelin-like tapestry; and secondly, by their amazingly modern air. Madame de Sevigne is wholly modern, said a Frenchman lately. She is: but not a modern of the Victorian type, the type apparent to F itzgerald; and that he should have perceived and re-created in these Essays, the delicate and subtle nuances of the atmosphere in which a Bussy, a Vardes, a Marans, a Charles de Sevigne, the Coulanges lived, is a triumph of intuitive genius the very simplicity of whose Art is at once elusive and inimitable.
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