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SABLE, MADELEINE DE SOUVRE, MARQUISE DE (15991678) French writer, was born in 1599, the daughter of Gilles de Souvre, marquis de Courtenvaux, tutor of Louis XIII., and marshal of France
Emmanuel
Laval , marquis de Sable, who died in 1640, leaving her in somewhat straitened circumstances. With her friend the comtesse de St Maur she took rooms in the Place Royale, Paris, and established a literary salon. Here originated that class of literature of which the Maximes of La Rochefoucauld are the best-known example. The Maximes of the marquise de Sable were in fact composed before those of La Rochefoucauld, though not published till after her death. In 1655 she retired, with the comtesse de St Maur, to the Convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Marly, removing in 1661, when that establishment
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