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Grignan
The Marquise de Sevigne

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Les Lettres de la Marquise de Sévigné
The fame of Grignan is of a literary nature ; this Provençal village cannot be disassociated from her, who made it famous through her correspondence, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne.
 

"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.
La Marquise de Sévigné
 
  La Collégiale de Grignan
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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