"The prettiest girl in France marries, not only the most handsome boy, but the most honest man in the kingdom." When Françoise Marguerite married the Count of Grignan in 1671, she went to live with him in Grignan. It was the start of a long series of correspondence between the mother who stayed in Paris and the daughter. The letters of the marquise de Sevigne is a masterpiece of literature, known by all schoolchildren in France.
The marquise went to Grignan several times to visit her daughter. She died there on February 17, 1696 at the age of 70. Her tomb can be found in the collegial church.
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