Marie-Angélique Du Gué Bagnoles Coulanges

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Marie-Angélique Du Gué Bagnoles Coulanges

1641–1723

A sharp-witted French writer of the salon world, she is remembered for letters, songs, and light verse that capture the tone of late 17th-century literary society. Her writing moved through the same social circles as some of the best-known names of classical French literature.

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Lettres de Mmes. de Villars, de Coulanges et de La Fayette, de Ninon de L'Enclos et de Mademoiselle Aïssé

Lettres de Mmes. de Villars, de Coulanges et de La Fayette, de Ninon de L'Enclos et de Mademoiselle Aïssé

by C. E. (Charlotte Elisabeth) Aïssé, Marie-Angélique Du Gué Bagnoles Coulanges, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne) La Fayette, Ninon de Lenclos, marquise de Marie Gigault de Bellefonds Villars

About the author

Born in 1641, Marie-Angélique de Coulanges was a French woman of letters associated with the lively salon culture of the Grand Siècle. She was the daughter of Philippe Emmanuel de Coulanges and the cousin of Madame de Sévigné, a connection that places her close to one of the most famous letter-writing circles of the period.

She became known for her letters, songs, epigrams, and occasional verse, writing in a style valued for wit, ease, and social observation rather than formal grandeur. That mix of intelligence and liveliness helped preserve her reputation as a recognizable voice in the literary life of late 17th- and early 18th-century France.

She died in 1723. Although she is less widely read today than some of her contemporaries, her work still offers a glimpse of how literary culture thrived in conversation, correspondence, and the social world around the French salons.