If you know France, then you surely know something about Louis XIV and Versailles. But what was afoot with the nobles in the Marais? Rebellions? Scandals? Rubbish pickup? Street lighting? One woman’s presence in both of these worlds—and the vivid letters she wrote describing them—forms the heart of a new …
Life in the Marais and Paris in the 1600s
Madame de Sévigné’s Historical Letters exhibition at Musée Carnavalet