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 "Autumn Days;" the last work she published is called "Melusina's Summer-Night." She then shut up her desk, that she might not survive herself as an authoress. Wieland also wrote a preface to this work; having introduced her in the commencement of her literary career, he accompanied her to the close.

ROCHES, MESDAMES DES, two celebrated ladies of Poitiers, in France, who lived in the sixteenth century. The elder was named Madeleine Neveu, wife of André Fradonet, seigneur Des Roches, and her daughter Catharine. They were very learned, wise, and virtuous Madame des Roches became a widow fifteen years after her marriage, and devoted herself to the education of her daughter, in whom she found a very dear friend, and a rival who excelled her. They devoted themselves principally to writing poetry; and their verses show their great attachment to each other, and also that they met with many sorrows. Catharine was so attached to her mother, that she would never marry, although she had many worthy suitors. They express, in their writings, a strong desire not to survive each other; and their wish was gratified, for they died the same day of a plague that ravaged Poitiers, in 1587. Madame des Roches was born in 1531.

ROCHIER, AGNES DU, a very beautiful girl, the only daughter of a rich tradesman of Paris. Her father left her a handsome fortune, but at the age of eighteen she turned recluse, in the parish of St. Opertune, in 1403. Recluses built themselves a little chamber adjoining the walls of some church. The door of the cell was sealed with great pomp by the bishop, and never again opened. A little window was left, from whence the recluse heard the offices of the church, and received the necessaries of life. Agnes du Rochier lived to the age of ninety-eight.

RODHIA, A Moorish Spaniard of Cordova, the freedwoman of King Abdelrahnman, who wrote many volumes on rhetoric. She is said to have lived one hundred and seven years, and died in 1044.

ROHAN, ANNE DE, of Catherine de Parthenai, heiress of the house of Soubise, was born in 1562, and acquired, like her mother, a high reputation in the literary world. She would have been one of the greatest poetesses of her age, but her devoted piety turned her talent into another channel. She died unmarried in 1646. She was a Protestant, and was celebrated for her courage, as well as her learning.

ROHAN, FRANCES DE, LADY DE LA GARNACHE, daughter to Renatus de Rohan and Isabella d'Albret, daughter of John d'Albret, King of Navarre, and was consequently cousin-german to Joan d'Albret, mother to Henry the Fourth. She was betrothed to the Duke de Nemours, by whom she had a son; but he becoming tired of her, obtained from the pope a