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Updated: May 26, 2025
"Was Bien-Bon with you when you made that little excursion to St. Germain?" queried the duchesse. "Ah, that was a gay night," joyously responded Madame de Sevigne. "How well we amused ourselves on that little visit that we paid Madame de Maintenon when she was only Madame Scarron." "Was she so handsome then as they say she was at that time?"
The child did not inherit much of her grandmother's spirit of reverence, and at a later period was wont to indulge in many harmless pleasantries about her pious ancestress and "our grandfather, St. Francois de Sales." Deprived so early of the care of a mother, she was brought up by an uncle, the good Abbe de Coulanges the "Bien-Bon" whose life was devoted to her interests.
"You know Lower Brittany very well, do you not, dear friend?" "Not so well as the coast. Les Rochers is in Upper Brittany, you know. I know the south better still. Ah, what a charming journey I once took along the Loire with my friend Bien-Bon, the Abbe de Coulanges. We found it the most enchanting country in the world the country of feasts and of famine; feasts for us and famine for the people.
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