money laundering charges. Another Miami-based judge has just blocked that extradition until after completion of Noriega's appeal, which invokes Third Geneva Convention of 1949, dealing with treatment of prisoners of war.... 1626, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal was born in Paris, the granddaughter of Jeanne de Chantal, a French noblewoman who would be named a saint for having established the Roman Catholic Order of the Visitation of Our Lady after becoming a widow at age 28. Marie herself was widowed at age 26 after her husband was fatally wounded in a duel. Under her married name, Marie Sévigné (above), she wrote letters to her daughter until her own death in 1696. Still in print, this 25-year correspondence remains an important artifact of the times in which Mme de Sévigné lived.
