A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Guerre, (Elizabeth Claude Jacquet de la)
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GUERRE (ELIZABETH CLAUDE JACQUET DE LA), born at Paris,
Gave proofs, during her early infancy, of extraordinary musical abilities; for at fifteen, she played before the king, and Madame de Montespan kept her three or four years. She married Martin de la Guerre, an organist, and gave the world Cephalis and Procris (the words by Duché), three books of Cantatas, a collection of Harpsichord Lessons, another of Sonatas, and a Te Deum for the king's recovery, with grand chorusses, which was performed in the chapel at the Louvre, 1721. She died 1729.