She spent most of 1651 in retirement at Les Rochers, but returned to Paris that November. Instead, she devoted herself to her children. Though only twenty-four when her husband died, Mme de Sévigné never married again. On 4 February 1651, Henri de Sévigné was mortally wounded in a duel with the Chevalier d'Albret after a quarrel over his mistress, Mme de Gondran, and died two days later. Henri was a serial philanderer who spent money recklessly, but through her uncle's careful financial oversight Marie was able to keep much of her fortune separate. She gave birth to a daughter, Françoise, on 10 October 1646 whether at Les Rochers or in Paris is not certain, and to a son, Charles, at Les Rochers on 12 March 1648. The marriage took place on 4 August 1644, and the couple went almost immediately to the Sévigné manor house of Les Rochers, near Vitré, a place which she was later to immortalize. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal married Henri, marquis de Sévigné, a nobleman from Brittany allied to the oldest houses of that province, but of no great estate. She received a good education in his care and often referred to him in her correspondence as "le Bien Bon". When her grandfather, Philippe de Coulanges, died in 1636, her uncle, Christophe de Coulanges, abbé of Livry, became her guardian. She then passed into the care of her maternal grandparents. His wife did not survive him by many years, and Marie was left an orphan at the age of seven. Her father was killed during the English attack on the Isle of Rhé in July 1627. Her father, Celse Bénigne de Rabutin, baron de Chantal, was the son of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, a friend and disciple of Saint Francis de Sales her mother was Marie de Coulanges. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal was born in the fashionable Place des Vosges then called the Place Royale, Paris, to an old and distinguished family from Burgundy. She is revered in France as one of the great icons of French 17th-century literature. Most of her letters, celebrated for their wit and vividness, were addressed to her daughter. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné was a French aristocrat, remembered for her letter-writing. There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
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