A volume of correspondence of Madame de Graffigny, 18th-century French writer, dating from 20th August 1752 to 30 December 1753.

Francoise de Graffigny (1695-1758) frequented an impressive list of personages, including Voltaire, and her letters offer a unique record of a quarter century of France's intellectual history. This collection, which will eventually consist of fifteen volumes containing more than 2500 letters (most of them written to Francois Devaux from 1738 on), offers detailed documentation of eighteenth-century social, literary, and political history, and at the same time provides an absorbing chronicle of intrigue and gossip."