A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Cervaton, (Anne)

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CERVATON, (ANNE) a Spanish Lady, Daughter of Germana de Foix, Mistress of Ferdinand V. King of Spain;

To the most exquisite beauty, added a fine and cultivated taste. She spoke her own language with elegance and correctness, and, at the same time, wrote and spoke Latin with the same facility. Some of her letters in this language are still extant.

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