A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Duyn, Marguerite de
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DUYN, MARGUERITE DE,
Abbess of the convent of La Chartreuse de Poletin, on the confines of Dauphiny and Savoy, lived at the close of the thirteenth century. During her life she was considered a saint, and she wrote several meditations in Latin, remarkable only for the correctness and propriety of the language. She also wrote her own language with ease, and her works shew a cultivation of mind uncommon in those days.