A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Charce, (Phillis de la Tour du Pin-Gouverne, Mademoiselle de la)
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CHARCE, (Phillis de la Tour du Pin-Gouverne, Mademoiselle de la) a French Heroine of the seventeenth Century.
On the attack the duke of Savoy made upon Dauphiny, in 1692, this courageous lady armed the villages in her department, put herself at their head, and, by little skirmishes, harrassed the enemy in the mountains, and contributed very much to make them abandon the country. In the mean time, her mother exhorted the people in the plains to remain faithful to their duty; and her sister caused the cables of the boats to be cut, so that they could be of no use to them. Lewis XIV. gave Mademoiselle de la Charce a pension, and permitted her to place her sword and armour in the treasury of St. Denis.
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