Note 55 — STRAWBERRY HILL.
Reading edition
I allude here to Ninon’s genuine letters, many of which are to be found scattered through the works of St. Evremond, and her supposed letters, addressed to the Marquis de Sévigné. “Les vraies lettres de Ninon,” says a modern French critic, “étoient moins recherchés et plus délicates, quoique le tour en soit singulier et qu’elles soient remplies de morale et brillantes d’esprit.”