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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY

following; La Coquette Corrigée, 'Les Rendezvous and Les Filles à Marier. But the most singular composition of this lady is her own portrait, the only one we recollect having met with in verse.

vive jus qu'a l'étourderie,
Folle dans mes discours, mais sage en mes écrits,
Ils sont presque toujours remplis,
Par des traits de philosophie.
Sensible pour l'instant, mais facile à changer,
L'oublie, & quelquefois on peut me croire ingrate,
Je cherche à m'éclairer; Je croix ce qui me flatte;
Je fuis les envieux, sans vouloir m'en vanger:
Mon esprit est solide, & mon cœur est leger.
Air gai, peau blanche, oeil noir & grandeur ordinaire;
Mes traits sont chifonnés; ma taille est reguliere.



GUILLAUME (JACQUETTE),

Who published a work in 1665, with the title of Les Dames Illustres, où, par bonnes & fortes raisons, il se prouve que le Sexe Feminin surpasse en toute sorte de Genre le sexe Masculin. Her stile of writing is perfectly easy, elegant, and unaffected, and shews her to have been a woman of knowledge and abilities: she possessed besides many amiable qualities.

Another lady of the same surname published, in 1668, a similar work.

Mrs. Thicknesse, &c.


GUILLET (PENETTE DU), a Poetess of Lyons, co-temporary with Louisa Labé, and illustrious for her virtue, graces, beauty, and literary attainment.

She accompanied her own voice on many instruments, which she touched with exquisite skill. The Spanish,

Italian,