LETTER III

1. Philippe de Coulanges was a first-cousin of Madame de Sévigné. He received this letter at Lyons.

2. Probably refers to Mary, widow of Louis XII., who three months after the death of this King married the Duke of SufTolk. —

Juste means legitimate, exact.

MADAME DE SEVIGNE xin

3. Miséricorde ! exclamation of surprise and regret. Translate 1 which makes everyone cry, Mercy upon us !'

4. Marguerite, Duchesse de Rohan, had refused two Dukes to marry Henri Chabot, a poor gentilhomme — Madame a" Hauterive had married against her father's wishes.