A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Seguier, Anne de

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4121103A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Seguier, Anne de

SEGUIER, ANNE DE,

Daughter to Pierre Seguier, whose family gave to France so many illustrious magistrates, married Francis du Prat, Baron de Thiers, by whom she had two daughters, Anne and Philippine, who were educated in the court of Henry the Third of France. Anne de Seguier was a celebrated poetess; she was living in 1573. Her daughters, also, were distinguished for their literary attainments, and for their skill in the Greek and Latin languages.