A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Rohan, Marie Eleonore de
ROHAN, MARIE ELEONORE DE,
Celebrated for her piety and talents, was the daughter of Hercule de Rohan-Guémeni, Duke de Montbazon. She was born in 1628, and educated in a convent. Of high birth and fortune, beautiful and accomplished, Eleonore, at the age of eighteen, notwithstanding the tears of her father, and the entreaties of her friends, resolved to enter a convent. She became a member of the Benedictine order at Montargis, and was soon after named Abbess La Trinity de Caen. This dignity she wished to decline but was compelled to accept it. She fulfilled all the duties .of this office with gentleness, propriety, and wisdom. She gave singular proof of her mild firmness in maintaining the rights and privileges of the abbey.
Her health obliged her to remove to Malnone, near Paris; and in 1669 she was solicited to take upon herself also the government of another community. In the intervals of her duties, she applied herself to study. She composed a paraphrase on the Proverbs, called "Morale de Solomon;" "A Discourse on Wisdom," and several other tracts. To the modesty and gentleness of her own sex, she united the wisdom and learning of the other. She died in 1681.