Category
page 117th-century French letter writers
François de La Rochefoucauld
French author of maxims and memoirs (1613-1680)
Madame de Sévigné
French noble and epistolarian writer (1626–1696)
Ninon de Lenclos
French author, courtesan, freethinker, and patron of the arts (1620-1705)
Madame de Lafayette
French writer (1634-1693)
Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon
Mistress and later secret wife of King Louis XIV of France (1635-1719)
Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchess of Orléans
German princess; wife of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
Théophile de Viau
French poet (1590-1696)
Catherine de Bourbon
Infanta of Navarre, Princess of France, crown princess of Navarre and crown princess consort of Lorraine
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon
French Roman Catholic mystic
Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé
French writer
Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien
queen of Poland (1641-1716)
Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon
French royal (1676-1753)
Marie de Brimeu
Dutch botanist (1550-1605)
Françoise Bertaut de Motteville
French writer (1621-1689)
Henriette de Coligny de La Suze
French poet (1617-1673)