Mme de Graffigny and the Archduchess: Indirect Correspondence between the Court and 'le monde' by Kelsey Rubin-Detlev

“…These two exchanges accordingly show the full complexity of how eighteenth-century letter-writers managed the ambivalence of epistolary writing: both privacy and publicity could be staged and could take on multiple layers of meaning as letters moved between the court and le monde.…”
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