" Never has a man been so nearly perfect, and the more one knew him the more one loved him and the more one misses him. Good-bye, Monsieur and Madame. I embrace you both a thousand times. I am sorry you have nobody to talk to about this important news; it is natural to pass on to others everything you think about it. If you are upset you are like us here. "

― Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de Sévigné , Selected Letters