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Pauline de Grignan in the Letters of Mme de Sévigné

WERE ARNOLPHE'S WORDS IN MME DE SEVIGNE'S MIND when, in a letter of October 29, 1688 she wrote of her granddaughter Pauline to Mme de Grignan: 'vous ferez une merveille de cette petite cire molle. Vous la tournerez comme vous voudrez,?2 Her Correspondance up to and beyond this point often carries a kind of commentary on the lives of her grandchildren and advice about their upbringing. For this reason, it is a source of insights into the nature of those lives at a time when writers rarely described in any detail the day-to-day existence of children, especially if they were girls. This correspondence therefore seems potentially valuable in exploring the life of Pauline de Grignan, who is sometimes overlooked in studies of Sevigne's work. Naturally we must not assume too much on the basis of the latter's observations. Her letters do not and cannot provide a full history of the lives of Marie-Blanche, LouisProvence and Pauline. We should also proceed with caution because of the inevitable partiality of both Sevigne and Mme de Grignan, and because, if we have any sense of the latter's thoughts, it comes through Sevigne's quotations from her daughter's letters, and more often through Sevigne' s recapitulation or paraphrase of her concerns. Moreover, although we naturally want Pauline's life to offer insights in its turn into the lives of other girls and young women of the last part of the seventeenth century, it can only do so to a limited extent. Despite the fact that the family was always crippled with debts, Pauline was born