COMPLETE [Solo] The Letters of Madame de Sévigné by Marie de Rabutin-Chantal - dl

pnagami · Post by **pnagami** » July 29th, 2021, 8:33 am

Hi barbara,

Section 22 is PL OK.

The poisoners!

Pam

barbara2 · Post by **barbara2** » August 10th, 2021, 6:53 am

Hi Pam,

Section 23

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/letters_23_sevigne_128kb.mp3
M:S
24:15

This is the same Cessac who had already had to flee France back in an early Section after winning against the King and the other courtiers by playing with a false deck. LeSage said in evidence that Cessac had asked him for a secret to win at cards with the king.

Do you think "the gentlest and most agreeable medicines" could have contained laudanum?

Best,

Barbara

pnagami · Post by **pnagami** » August 11th, 2021, 8:45 am

Hi Barbara,

Section 23 is PL OK.

Yes, definitely, though the recipes for laudanum after Paracelsus were not simplified to a 10% tincture with alcohol until 1676 by Sydenham in 1676.

Pam

barbara2 · Post by **barbara2** » August 15th, 2021, 2:20 am

Hi Pam,

Section 24:

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/letters_24_sevigne_128kb.mp3
M:S
22:30

More C17 medical notes and more poisoners.

Best,

Barbara

pnagami · Post by **pnagami** » August 15th, 2021, 9:40 am

Hi Barbara, Section 24 is PL OK.

Yikes!

Pam

barbara2 · Post by **barbara2** » August 22nd, 2021, 5:56 pm

Hi Pam, Section 25

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/letters_25_sevigne_128kb.mp3

M:S
26:21

Some notable personalities leave the stage.

Best,

Barbara

pnagami · Post by **pnagami** » August 22nd, 2021, 6:58 pm

Hi Barbara,

Section 25 is PL OK.

What an all star line up!

Madame de Longueville was, with de Retz, one of the greatest Frondeurs of them all and an unfaithful lover of La Rochefoucauld.

I have never been to Versailles, but I did visit Fouquet's lovely Vaux le Vicomte--the chateau that got him thrown into prison for life when his visitor, Louis XIV, realized how much money he had to be embezzling to afford it.

My best,

Pam

barbara2 · Post by **barbara2** » August 22nd, 2021, 7:37 pm

Thanks Pam.

I did visit Versailles, in fact half a dozen famous palaces (I was young and had stamina). I had never heard of Vaux le Vicomte then, alas.

Best,

Barbara

pnagami · Post by **pnagami** » August 22nd, 2021, 7:40 pm

It's like a tiny little Versailles with gardens by Le Nôtre.

Pam

barbara2 · Post by **barbara2** » August 22nd, 2021, 7:51 pm

pnagami wrote: ↑August 22nd, 2021, 6:58 pm

Madame de Longueville was, with de Retz, one of the greatest Frondeurs of them all and an unfaithful lover of La Rochefoucauld.

Incredible woman. And, another blonde! "Silver blonde" she is described as on one site.

Barbara

barbara2 · Post by **barbara2** » August 25th, 2021, 3:14 pm

Hi Pam,

Section 26

https://librivox.org/uploads/availle/letters_26_sevigne_128kb.mp3
M:S
19:22

Best,

Barbara

Mme de S surprises me - this Mme de Dreux was tried for having poisoned: Monsieur Pajot, Monsieur de Varennes; one of her lovers; one of her competing lovers of the Duke de Richelieu; the attempted murders of her husband and of Anne de Richelieu (wife of the Duke de Richelieu); and of having ordered poisoned wine from La Voisin.

An order for her re-arrest was ordered in 1681. She left the country to avoid arrest, and upon the appeal from both her husband and her lover, she was spared any punishment for her crimes.

Several members of her family were among her judges and there was outrage among the common people at the leniency with which she was treated.

pnagami · Post by **pnagami** » August 25th, 2021, 3:51 pm

Hi Barbara,

It is indeed amazing how much slack she cuts for her!

Section 26 is PL OK.

My best,

Pam

barbara2 · Post by **barbara2** » September 11th, 2021, 6:03 am

And now, Pam, Section 27

https://librivox.org/uploads/aradlaw/letters_27_sevigne_128kb.mp3
M:S
21:14

"Mlle" du Plessis and "Mlle" de Launay not "Mme" as mistranslated.

Best,

Barbara

pnagami · Post by **pnagami** » September 11th, 2021, 10:47 am

Hi Barbara,

Section 27 is PL OK.

Is this Arnauld in exile the Jansenist Arnauld?

Pam

barbara2 · Post by **barbara2** » September 11th, 2021, 2:55 pm

pnagami wrote: ↑September 11th, 2021, 10:47 am Hi Barbara,

Section 27 is PL OK.

Is this Arnauld in exile the Jansenist Arnauld?

Pam

Thanks Pam. Indeed it is.

Barbara