Sévigné, madame de, compares the genius of Corneille with Racine, and prefers the former, I. 57. Her delightful style, 85..87. Her character of the duke of Rochefoucauld, 88. Her life narrated, 214-258. Her maiden name Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, 214. Her father, the baron de Chantal, slain at La Rochelle in an engagement with the English, 215. His laconic epistle to marshal Schomberg, 215. His family the elder branch of the Rabutins, 214. 215. His wife was Marie de Coulanges, 214. 215. Their daughter, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, born in 1626, 214. Is left an orphan, 215. Taught Italian and Latin by Ménage and Chapelle, 216. Is married to Henri, marquis de Sévigné, 216. Her children, 216. The marquise a zealous Frondeuse, 217. Her friendship with mademoiselle de Montpensier and the duchess de Châtillon, 217. Loss of her husband, 218. Educates her children, 218. Her widowhood exemplary, 218. Her grief on the loss of the abbé de Coulanges, her uncle, 223. She frequents the Hôtel Rambouillet, 220. Quarrel of Bussy-Rabutin with his fair cousin, 221. Reconciliation, 225. He reproaches her with avarice, 225. Her sorrow for the imprisonment and exile of de Retz, 221. Her sympathy with the misfortunes of Fouquet, 222. 223, n. She retires from Paris, 225. Returns and presents her daughter at court, 225. Her journeys to her estate of Les Rochers in Brittany, 237. 239. 249.; and to see her daughter in Provence, 228. 241. Her separation from her daughter, 228. Her son accompanies an expedition to Candia, 226. His attachment for Ninon de l'Enclos, 230. He marries and retires to his estates in Brittany, 231. 240. 247. 249. Madame de la Fayette and other friends of madame de Sévigné, 231. Her life in Brittany described, 240. 241. Seized with rheumatism, 244. She is out of favour at court, as being a Jansenist, 248. 249. 257. She spends her latter years with her daughter in Provence, 253. Final visit to Paris, 254. She dies at Grignan, aged 70. 254. Opinions on her character and literary merit, 255-258. Her family now extinct, 258. Remark of madame de Sévigné, II. 207. Her correspondence:--Letters to her daughter, madame de Grignan, I, 220. 224. 237. 238. 239. 241. 244. 246. 247. 248. 251. Her letters to her cousin the count de Bussy-Rabutin, 217. 226. 227. 247. 249. 251. Her letters to various friends, 223. Letters from count de Bussy to madame de Sévigné, 219. Sévigné, Henri Marquis de, I. 216. His marriage with Marie de Rabutin-Chantal at first happy, 216. Their son and daughter, 216. His relationship to the cardinal de Retz, 217. The marquis and his celebrated lady join the Fronde, 217. His affection for Ninon de l'Enclos, 217. Killed by the chevalier d'Albret in a duel, 218. Shakspeare, William, I. 40. Voltaire's remarks on, II. 101. Sirven family, case of the, II. 83. "Songes Drolatiques," to whom ascribed, I. 38. Sophocles, I. 40. II. 15. His "Œdipus Tyrannus," 16.