A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Habert, Susan de

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HABERT, SUSAN DE,

Wife of Charles Jardin, an officer of the household of Henry the Third of France, who became a widow in 1585, at the age of twenty-four, when she devoted herself to literature, especially philosophy, divinity, and the languages. She was a pious as well as learned woman. She died in 1633.