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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY

LUBERT (MADEMOISELLE),

Among other works, is well known by the following, which are her best: 1, La Tyrannie des Fées Detruites, ou l'Origine de la Machine de Marli, 12mo.; 2, Le Revenant, 12mo.; 3, La Princesse Lionette et le Prince Coquerio, 12mo. 1743; 4, La Princesse Coque d'Œuf et le Prince Bonbon, 12mo. 1745; 5, Blancherose, conte, 12mo. 1751; 6, Amadis des Gaules (réduits à), 4 vols, 12mo.; 7, Les Hauts Faits d'Esplandian (réduits à), 2 vols. 12mo.; 8, Leonille, nouvelle, 12mo. 2 vols, 1755.

Letters on the French Nation.



LUCAR, (ELIZABETH), Daughter of Mr. Paul Withypoll, born in London, 1510.

Her father gave her a polite and liberal education, which being improved by an excellent genius, she became exquisitely skilled in all kinds of needlework, was a curious calligrapher, or fine writer; a great proficient in arithmetic; played skilfully on several sorts of music; and was a complete mistress of the Latin, Italian, and Spanish tongues. She was a virtuous and religious woman, and died 1537, aged 27.




LUCCHESINI (LAURA GUIDICCIONI), lived at Sienna in 1601, and was of the same Family as John Guidiccioni, one of the first Italian Poets of the 16th Century.

Distinguished herself by her poetical talents, which

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