Letters from Spain : a seventeenth-century French noblewoman at the Spanish Royal Court / Marie Gigault de Bellefonds, marquise de Villars ; edited and translated by Nathalie Hester.

Author: Villars, Marie Gigault de Bellefonds, marquise de, 1624-1706, author.

ImprintNew York : Iter Press, 2021.

Descriptionxi, 100 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm

Note:Letters translated from French into English by the editor.

Note:Introduction: The other voice -- A diplomatic life -- Women and the epistolary arts -- The Marquise de Villars, letter writer and travel writer -- The self-fashioning of an ambassadress -- The extant letters of the Marquise de Villars -- A note on the translation -- Letters from Spain (1679-1681) -- Appendix: Three Additional Letters by the Marquise de Villars. Letter A: To the Marquise de Sévigné, Paris, August 25, 1673 -- Letter B: To Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Turin, November 1, 1676 80 -- Letter C: To Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Turin, September 11, 1677.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-90) and index.

Note:"Translation and critical study of thirty-seven letters to friends at home, written 1679-1681 by Marie Gigault de Bellefonds, marquise de Villars, French noblewoman and wife of French ambassador Pierre de Villars, describing life at the Spanish court at a troubled time."-- Provided by publisher.

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