Three 18th-century ladies and their correspondents by JEAN SEZNEC , Fellow of All Souls and Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford
These letter-writers express not only their own personality but that of the 18th century-' that vivaciousness which was its special grace '
2: Madame Geoffrin and the King of Poland
'Herlastlettershadtobedictated: but she herself managed to trace, in her own crippled hand. the very last sentence: Je vous aime de tout mon coeur.'