Note 289 — LETTERS TO HER SON THE MARQUIS DE SÉVIGNÉ.[289]
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This only son of Madame de Sévigné inherited neither her genius, her virtues, nor her energy of character. She treated him always with great kindness, but was never blind to his faults. Her judicious management seems to have had a salutary effect on him, after the follies of his youth were over. He reformed in a measure, and, in 1684, married Jeanne Marguerite de Brenant de Mauron of a noble and rich family. This alliance was a great joy to Madame de Sévigné, and it is to the illness of this beloved daughter-in-law that she alludes in the second letter.