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SÉVIGNÉ (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de). Letters from Madame de Sévigné, her family and friends. Collected and annotated by M. Monmerqué. Paris, Hachette, 1862-1868. 14 vol. in-8 and 1 volume small in-4, 4 portraits including 1 frontispiece, 8 views, 1 chromolithographic heraldic plate, 28 facsimiles, genealogical tables. Red half-maroquin with corners, ornate spine, gilt head (Smeers). Staining to volume 1, rare foxing. A fine copy, complete with the album published two volumes after the last text volume. (Vicaire, III, 1113-1114.)

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[BIOGRAPHY] SEVIGNE (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal). Letters of Madame de Sévigné. Published by Furne et Cie in 1860. In-8 format, half chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt caissons. First edition. Frontispiece, brown spots. Fairly good condition.

Lot 5

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

FRANÇOIS DE SALES (saint). Autograph letter, [most likely addressed to Saint Jeanne de Chantal]. S.l.n.d. One p. in-4oblong, mounted on cardboard with glass frame. "J'ai repensé, ma trés chere mere au desir que M[m]ede Gouffier a de venir vous prendre, et l'ai conferé avec ses lettres, et m'est venu en l'esprit que peut-estre il ne seroit pas si hors de rayson qu'il me sembloit d'abord puisque ell[e] a son esprit si embarassé et plein de choses qui l'affligent. Àelle la peine de venir et la despense de son voyage, mays nous en parlerons, Dieu aydant, ce soir, cependant vous y penserés un peu, et moy [j']aura[y] eu ce petit sujet de donner le bonjour au trés aymé cœur de ma mere." After reading the Introduction to the Devout Life of St. Francis de Sales, Marie-Elisabeth de Gouffier came into contact with the latter and, thanks to him, was able to leave her monastery at Le Paraclet in 1614, to visit Jeanne de Chantal at the monastery in Annecy (1613). She also obtained permission to remain there for a time and to wear the habit, but without being a Visitation nun. She went on to render outstanding service to the Order, helping to found new monasteries in Moulins and in Paris in her own house on the Faubourg Saint-Marcel (1619). However, an exalted and unstable spirit, she asked to leave the Visitation (1620) and came into conflict with the mother de Chantal over money. Saint Jeanne de Chantal, founder of the Visitation Order. Jeanne Fremyot (1572-1641), Baroness de Chantal by marriage, was the daughter of a president of the Burgundy parliament. After meeting Saint François de Sales, who came to preach in Dijon, she asked him to become her spiritual director. Widowed, she joined St. Francis de Sales in Annecy, and founded the Order of the Visitation with him in 1609. She ensured the development of a large network of monasteries, which she animated with her zeal - and was canonized in 1767. She was also the grandmother of the Marquise de Sévigné. Provenance: Bishop Pierre-Joseph Rey of Annecy (1770-1842, autograph note signed with red wax seal on verso). In 1826, Bishop Rey, then bishop of Pignerol, delivered a speech to the Court of Piedmont-Sardinia on the occasion of the transfer of the relics of Saint François de Sales and Saint Jeanne de Chantal to the new Visitation basilica. In 1836, as Bishop of Annecy, he founded a triduum of prayers in honor of François de Sales in the chapel of the Château des Allinges. -Canon Mercier, parish priest of Notre-Dame parish in Chambéry, who maintained special links with the Visitation Sainte-Marie de Chambéry, becoming its referent in 1867. François de Sales, OEuvres complètes, J.-P.Migne, vol.VI, 1862, col.1094, n°xlvi, proposing the identification of the recipient, and indicating the above provenance.

Lot 2442

Estim. 50 - 60 EUR

SÉVIGNÉ (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de). Recueil des Lettres de Madame la marquise de Sévigné à Madame la Comtesse de Grignan, sa fille. New edition. Paris, Rollin, 1738. 6 vol. in-12 marbled calf, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). 2 engraved frontispiece portraits. Covers and corners worn, some headpieces missing, beginning of a split at the spine, one section detached in volume 5.

Lot 20

Estim. 8 000 - 10 000 EUR

[Letters from Madame de Sévigné] "Portefeuille de M. le Comte de Bussy-Rabutin". Manuscript, ca.1700, in-12 (17.5*11.5cm), approx.320p (unpaginated). Exceptional manuscript of Bussy-Rabutin's correspondence, including 35 letters between Bussy and Madame de Sévigné, copied at the time from the Langeac manuscript, Bussy-Rabutin's autograph copy of his correspondence for his daughter. Our copy is a partial copy of the Langeac manuscript. Although the Langeac manuscript was used for Monmerqué's famous 1818 edition, it seems that he didn't use it all, since when it went on sale in 1823, it fetched a considerable price for its time - 300 francs - and was bought by the bookseller Dalibon, who produced his own edition the same year. The Langeac manuscript recently went on sale (Paris, Sotheby's, July 4, 2023, no. 3). Our manuscript contains a total of 65 items, mainly correspondence (see details below), and begins with a copy of the letter to his daughter, indicated as a dedicatory epistle in the entry for the Langeac manuscript: "You wished, my dear daughter, that I give you a collection of what your aunt de Sévigné and I have written to each other. I approve of your desire, and praise your good taste: nothing is more beautiful than Madame de Sévigné's letters; the pleasant, the banter and the serious are admirable in them; one would say she was born for each of these characters [...] As for what is in this collection, my dear daughter, I will not speak of it; I hate the airs of vanity and even more those of false modesty [...] All delicate people would have pleasure in reading it, if it were seen in our time [...] ". Note that this collection contains no letters after 1679, whereas the Langeac collection ends in 1692. The Marquise de Coligny published letters as early as 1697. We can legitimately assume that this manuscript was copied at this time for distribution to friends. However, apart from our copy and the Langeac copy, we have not identified any other early copies. Some of Bussy-Rabutin's letters appear to have remained unpublished. Provenance : - undetermined auction, early 19th century (1811?), n°1865. Memorandum preserved, pasted on the flyleaf, pencil note indicating a price of 124 francs. - Charles-Gilbert Morel de Vindé (1759-1842) : Sale in Paris, Hôtel de Bullion, March 17, 1823, no. 2349. Sold for 300 francs. - François-Denis Dalibon (1794-1853), bookseller, who acquired it at the Morel-Vindé sale, in order to publish the unpublished letters (Lettres de Madame de Sévigné, de sa famille et de ses amis. Paris, Dalibon, 1823). High-quality binding in the style of Luc-Antoine Boyet. Full midnight-blue Jansenist morocco, lined with red morocco, roulette trim on spandrels and edges, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Slight wear to edges, spine slightly faded, paper uniformly yellowed. Exceptional pre-publication manuscript of Madame de Sévigné's letters, one of only two known. List of letters and pieces contained in the collection. The dates are indicated in pencil, probably by Dalibon; the numbers are those of the Hachette edition (1862): 1 Bussy to his daughter, the Marquise de Coligny. 2 Sévigné to Bussy, March 15, 1647 [1648, incorrectly dated by Bussy] (n°7). 3 Sévigné to Bussy, November 25, 1655 (no. 36). 4 Sévigné to Bussy, July 26, 1668 (no. 80). 5 Bussy to Sévigné, July 29, 1668 (no. 81). 6 Sévigné to Bussy, August 28, 1668 (no. 84). 7 Bussy to Sévigné, August 31, 1668 (no. 85). 8 Sévigné to Bussy, September 4, 1668 (no. 86). 9 Bussy to Sévigné, May 16, 1669 (no. 93). 10 Sévigné to Bussy, June 4, 1669 (no. 94). 11 Sévigné to Bussy, June 9, 1669 (no. 97). 12. sevigné to Bussy, august 8 [1st] 1669 (n°100). 13 Sévigné to Bussy, July 6, 1670 (no. 110). 14. sevigné to Bussy, February 16, 1671 (no. 135). 15 Corbinely to Bussy, May 16, 1672 (no. 275). 16 Bussy to Sévigné, March 20, 1674 (no. 379). 17 Sévigné to Bussy, September 5, 1674 (no. 385). 18 Sévigné to Bussy, August 6, 1675 (no. 424). 19) Sévigné to Bussy, October 9, 1675 (no. 455). 20 Sévigné to Bussy, October 13, 1677 (no. 662). 21 Sévigné to Bussy, November 3, 1677 (no. 668). 22 Bussy to Sévigné, November 6, 1677 (no. 669). 23 Sévigné to Bussy, December 8, 1677 (no. 671). 24 Corbinely to Bussy, February 8, 1678 (no. 681). 25 Bussy to Sévigné, February 23, 1678 (no. 684). 26 Sévigné to Bussy, June 20, 1678 (no. 693). 27 Bussy to Sévigné, June 29, 1678 (no. 696). 28 Sévigné to Bussy, December 18, 1678 (no. 709). 29 Sévigné to Bussy, May 29, 1679 (no. 716). 30 Bussy to Sévigné, June 10, 1679 (no. 718). 31 Sévigné to Bussy, June 27, 1679 (no. 720). 32 Mme de Colligny to Sévigné, July 6 [4?] 1679 (no. 721). 33. letter from Fontenelle to a demoisel

SÉVIGNÉ (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de). Letters fro

[BIOGRAPHY] SEVIGNE (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal). Letters of Madame de Sévigné. Published by Furne et Cie in 1860. In-8 format, half chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt caissons. First edition. Frontispiece, brown spots. Fairly good condition.

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