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

by Mary Matilda Betham

MARQUETS (ANNE DE) of a noble Family, entered among the Dominican Nuns at Poissy, and died there 1588.

Understanding Greek and Latin, she translated from the latter the Poems of Flaminius, Paris, 1569, 8vo.; and also the Latin Commentary, by Claude d'Espence, on the Sunday Collects; and wrote Sonnets for the Sundays. A collection of her fugitive pieces was published, which were much admired by Ronsard. Claude d'Espence was her friend, and left her an annuity of 30 livres, by his will, dated 1571. She lost her sight two years before she died.

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