A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Grignan, Frances, Countess de
GRIGNAN, FRANCES, COUNTESS DE,
Daughter of the celebrated Madame Sevigné, was born in 1646. In 1669, she married Count Grignan, an officer of high rank at the court of Louis the Fourteenth. Her residence in Provence with her husband, and at a distance from her mother, was the cause of the writing of those excellent letters which passed between the mother and daughter. She had two daughters and one son. Her life owes all its celebrity to the interest excited by the letters of her mother. The death of the Countess de Grignan occurred in 1705.