saint-evremond's

Updated: May 2, 2025

As an evidence of Saint-Evremond's unimpaired faculties at a great age, the charms of his person attracted the attention of the Duchess of Sandwich, one of the beauties of the English Court, and she became so enamored of him, that a liaison was the result, which lasted until the time of Saint-Evremond's death.

Ninon de Lenclos - Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos : The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century

The assembly will be brilliant, but you will doubtless be bored, for you will not see the only object that can attract you, and you will say of my apartment, what Malherbe so well says of the garden of the Louvre: "Mais quoi que vous ayez, vous n'avez point Caliste, Et moi je ne vois rien, quand je ne la vois pas." Why Love Grows Weak Marshal de Saint-Evremond's Opinion

Ninon de Lenclos - Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos : The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century