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of Mme de Rambouillet's salon was mostly of an occasional nature, and composed in homage to the female sex, comprising sonnets, madrigals, epistolary prose, and plays. The literature of the Scudéry circle, besides the products of a growing pedantry, also included many occasional pieces of a lighter kind, among which were so-called sonnets-énigmes, vers-échos and the like, which, if contributing to the enjoyment of an idle moment, had no permanence whatever as literature. To this kind of poetry the ladies themselves were important contributors. In M. Victor du Bled's
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we read about a
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Journée des Madrigaux at Mlle de Scudéry's, occasioned by a present of a
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made to the hostess on one of her famous Saturdays, calling forth poetical ebullitions from the most widely different authors. There were the famous
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Portrait series, composed by the ladies of the Duchess of Montpensier's circle; the written
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Conversations ,--those by Mlle de Scudéry herself were judged by Mme de Maintenon to contain