She was famous for her letters to her daughter, shown in the last image of this subalbum, that chronicled the antics of the court of King Louis XIV. Her Wikipedia article is here.
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ca. 1555 Caterina de' Medici by ? (Galleria degli Uffizi - Firenze, Toscana, Italy)
1670s Gabriela Mancini by Jacob Ferdinand Voet (Hermitage)
18th century Sevigne by Jaquotot Marie-Victoire (Louvre)
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