Armand de Melun, Augustin Cochin and especially Alfred de Falloux and Henri Lacordaire, who was to refound the Dominican Order in France. With the latter two she maintained a close lifelong friendship. Through her many contacts, she is regarded as having exercised an influence on French Catholicism. Works Her Life and Works (the best known of the latter being "Old Age" and "Resignation") were published by her friend Falloux (2 vols, 1860), as were her Letters (2 vols., 1861). Quotes Madame Swetchine is noted for the quotation: "How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success." She was reported to have said that "Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives and the serious part of frivolous lives." References Sainte-Beuve, Nouveaux lundis, vol. i. E Scherer, Etudes sur la littérature contemporaine, vol. i. Maturin M Ballou, "Travels Under the Southern Cross" Houghton Mifflin, NY, 1894 File:http://www.tocqueville.culture.fr/en/portraits/p_amis-swetchine.html External links 1782 births 1857 deaths 19th-century Christian mystics Roman Catholic mystics Converts to Roman Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy Former Russian Orthodox Christians Roman Catholics from the Russian Empire Ladies-in-waiting from the Russian Empire Salon holders from the Russian Empire 19th-century letter writers