Love Notes and Letters and the Letter Case: Marie-Catherine Desjardins (Madame de Villedieu)

This volume offers the first translation into English of two seminal works by the seventeenth-century French woman author, Marie-Catherine Desjardins, better known as Madame de Villedieu. The first of these works, Lettres et billets galants (Love Notes and Letters), was published in 1668 and contains her most intimate letters to her lover, Antoine de Villedieu. The second work, Le Portefeuille (The Letter Case), which appeared in 1674,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611473101
• ISBN13: 9781611473100
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 144 Pages