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Madame de Sevigne.-Madame de Grignan.-Madame de Montespan at the Carmelites.-Madame de la Valliere.-These Two Great Ruins Console One Another.-An Angel of Sweetness, Goodness, and Kindness.

Fifteen or twenty days before the death of Mademoiselle de Fontanges, my sister and I were taking a walk in the new woods of Versailles. We met the Marquise