<p><p><BR>This edition of Fran&ccedil;oise Pascal&rsquo;s collection epistolary highlights a rare innovative and entertaining work by a woman writer unknown today but in her time a distinguished playwright poet and painter. Now in its first modern edition this text provides new insights into seventeenth-century life and the discourses of galanterie and pr&eacute;ciosit&eacute;.</p><BR><P></p>