...a match-making lady, she baffled all the gossips, and left them all in laughter when her choice was made. The tale stands embalmed forever in the famous letter of Madame de Sevigne to her cousin, M. de Coulanges , written on Monday, December 15,.1670. It can never be translated too often, so let us risk it again, I have now to announce to you the most astonishing circumstance, the most surprising, most ...