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Rh daughter, a young lady of great beauty, who wrote also The Shrine of Bertha.

a woman of extraordinary merit. One of the most admired productions of her pen is intituled Question sur la Politesse, published in Holland, by Monsieur St. Hyacinthe. She died 1704, aged 59. .

lady was not much beloved by her cotemporaries, nor did they do her the justice she seems to have merited, which appears to have arisen from her being a protestant, as, in her Life of Julia de Farnese, she speaks with much satirical freedom of the vices of Pope Alexander VI. She wrote also L'Histoire des Favorites; Dernières Œuvres de Mademoiselle de la Roche Guilhem, contenant plusieurs Histoires Galantes; Les Aventures Grenadines; Arioviste; an Heroic Romance, in the stile of Mademoiselle de Scuderi. She mixed fiction with truth, but wrote in a pleasant and animated manner.

never would marry, because she did not chuse