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In , Henri was killed in a duel over his mistress, Madame de Gondran.

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She was a sensation. Her mother's cousin Roger de Bussy-Rabutin described her thus: "She has a keen mind, but it is a bitter sort of intelligence. She is unbearably vain, which will lead her to all sorts of stupid blunders. She will make as many enemies as her mother had made friends and admirers.

Madame de sévigné

Matrimonial prospects presented themselves, but it is likely she repulsed all advances. He was remarkably ugly his ugliness being a frequent family joke , yet tall, graceful, athletic, and charming. They married in Paris on 27 January Grignan was thus obliged to leave Paris and return to his family castle in the south of France.

Madame de Grignan, having become pregnant shortly after the wedding, was convinced by her mother to remain in Paris for the birth of her child. A daughter, Marie-Blanche was born in On 4 February , Madame de Grignan left Paris to join her husband in Provence the baby girl being shipped off to a convent for life. Thus began their correspondence.

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