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720 and having also married one of that profession, who kept the German coffee-house, in the street of St. Croix, in Paris. She also married a second husband, in the same business, named Bourrette.

Madame Bourrette composed a collection, in prose and verse, under the title of Recueil en Vers et en Prose, dedicated to King Stanislaus. This celebrated muse has employed her pen chiefly in praise of those actions and events which have been most interesting to France. But her Ode to the King of Prussia was much esteemed, and that great monarch honoured her (through the hands of his ambassador) with a very fine gold etui. This ode was composed before the war of 1755. .

reported to have been a fellow slave with the celebrated Æsop, and to have built one of the pyramids of Egypt. As she was once bathing in the Nile (for she was a native of Naucrates, a city of Egypt) an eagle snatched one of her slippers out of the hands of her waiting-woman, and carrying it to Memphis, where the king sat administering justice in a public place of the city, dropped it in his lap. The king was surprized at the novelty of this incident, and being smitten with the beauty of the slipper, immediately dispatched messengers throughout the country, with orders to bring to him the woman with whom they should find the fellow of that