Places associated with Madame de Sévigné

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, better known as Madame de Sévigné, is most famous for her letters to her daughter, Françoise de Sévigné, Countess of Grignan. She was born in the lovely Place des Vosges (then called the Place Royale) - above.

Below is Château des Rochers in Brittany, the ancestral home of the Sévigné family, into which she married.

After her husband's death, she spent most of the rest of life in Paris, living at what is now the Musée Carnavalet, which is dedicated to the history of Paris. Sévigné lived in the Hôtel from 1677 until 1696.

Grignan, in Rhône-Alpes (S.E. France), is where her daughter - the recipient of her letters - lived most of her life.