SÉVIGNÉ Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de [Paris, 1626 – - Lot 110

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SÉVIGNÉ Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de [Paris, 1626 – - Lot 110
SÉVIGNÉ Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de [Paris, 1626 – Château de Grignan, Drôme, 1696], French writer. Relic: A lock of Mme de Sévigné’s hair collected during her exhumation in the year 2 by Fournier (a stonemason). The hair is affixed to a small piece of paper and adorned with a drawing of a flower, accompanied by a handwritten letter signed on one page in-4°, with a red wax seal attesting to the authenticity of the collection of the lock of hair. “Authentic Certification: We, the justice of the peace of the canton of Grignan, hereby certify, in the interest of truth, that Citizen Fournier, a mason in Grignan, after opening Madame de Sévigné’s coffin in our presence, preserved a lock of hair from this great lady. ” The entire piece is set in a gilded frame measuring 26.5 x 31 cm.
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