Quote: "Mais, ma pauvre bonne, ce que je ferai beaucoup mieux que tout cela c'est de penser a vous".
Synopsis: I found madame Sevigne perspective on life to be like most females. She loves her daughter, she gossips a little, and she loves nature and it beautiful colors. She clings to these beautiful things because they are all she has.
Reader's Response: I thought that her writting gave us an insight on how France was at the time. These letters seem to reflect her belief in God, her love for her daughter, and I find them to be very genuine. She loves to talk with her daughter and tell her of all the beauty she see's around her. I think she uses these things in nature to describe her love for her daughter. She also writes these letters of deep thinking to those in her social circle. I found them to be good letters and that's all I have to say about them.
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I enjoyed reading the letters of Madame de Sevigne. She puts a lot of feeling and description into her letters. You can feel what she's feeling when she writes to her daughter. You feel what it would have been like to see Madame Voisin burned. I really liked the story of the King and his servant, and how it presented honesty.
Not knowing the response to her letters, we can easily sit in the chair as recipient of her correspondences and become a part of her conversation right in the middle of France's 17th century court life. Her writing style makes this accessible and, with a jump of imagination, possible.
I enjoyed the letter mostly for the insight they offered into the lives of nobility. I liked her style of writing because it seemed so intense especially when she was speaking of missing her daughter, << Il ny a point d'endroit,point de lieu, ni dans la maison, ni dans ce jardin, ou je ne vous aie vue; il n'y en a point que me fasse souvenir de quelque chose; et de quelque facon que ce soit aussi, cela me perce la couer.>>
It's interesting that she became famous simply for writing letters. She wasn't actually trying to accomplish any literary feats. Her writing was just so expressive and pertinent, and she was writing in just the right time and setting that today her letters are cherished as a historic and literary resource.
I really enjoyed these letters. I love when I can really feel the emotions of the writer and how life was back then. These letters really seemed to take me back to France and I loved it.
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