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674  this dismal situation, she wrote to her son to go on as he had begun, and not let the consideration of the extremity to which she was reduced prevail upon him to make him act any thing to the prejudice of his party, how great soever her sufferings might be. In short, she and her daughter refused to be included in the articles of capitulation, and remained prisoners of war. They were conveyed to the castle of Niort, 1628, and she died there 1631, aged 77. .

mother was daughter and wife of famous French physicians, and composed many pious works.

educated by her father in the most careful manner; instructed in various sciences, in Latin, in her own language, French, and in geography, in the knowledge of ancient marbles, of cameos, medals, history, poetry, and drawing, and was with the highest applause elected a member of the Parisian academy. She was author of a Latin Dissertation on the Phœnix; a Panegyric on Lewis XIV. pronounced, in 1085, in the academy of Padua, and of many other discourses. Her sister,

Amongst other works, printed a book, in folio, in the