[331] Beatrix Comtesse de Die in her own right (fl. 12th Century), author of a few Provençal poems.—T.
[332] Cf. Vol. II., p. 308, n. 6.—T.
[333] Loyse Labé, Sonnets, XIII., 1-2:
"Oh, if I were in that fair bosom rapt
Of him for whom I ever dying go!"—T.
[334] Clémence de Bourges was a young girl of Lyons, famous for her wit and her beauty and a friend and admirer of Loyse Labé. She died early, of a broken heart, and was given a magnificent funeral by the Lyonese. The poets of the day called her the "Pearl of Damsels, a truly Oriental pearl."—T.
[335] Margaret of Valois, Queen of Navarre (1492-1549), sister of Francis I. and married, in 1526, to Henry II. d'Albret, King of Navarre, is the author of the Heptaméron des nouvelles de très-illustre et très-excellente princesse Marguerite de Valois (1558-1559), the Miroir de l'âme pêcheresse (1533), Marguerites de la Marguerite des princesses, très-illustre royne de Navarre (1547), the Miroir de Jésus-Christ crucifié (1556) and Letters, published in the last century. The other Margaret is Margaret of France, Queen of Navarre (1552-1615), sister of Henry III. and married, in 1572, to Henry III. King of Navarre, later Henry IV. King of France, and left her admirable Memoirs for the enjoyment of posterity, with some Poems.—T.
[336] Mary Queen of Scots, France and (de jure) England (1542-1587). The only extant specimens of Mary's poetry, in addition to the reputed sonnets to Bothwell, are the verses on the death of her husband Francis II., printed by Brantôme in his Memoirs; a sonnet to Elizabeth in Latin and French; a Méditation faite par la Reyne d'Escosse Douarière de France, recueillie d'un Livre des Consolations Divines; and a sonnet written at Fotheringay, in the State Paper Office (Cf. the article in the Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. XXXVI., p. 389).—T.
[337] Cf. Vol. I., p. 21. I omit Madame Claude de Chateaubriand's sixty-sixth sonnet, which is quoted by her nephew many times removed.—T.
[338] Antoinette du Ligier de La Garde, Dame Deshoulières (1638-1694), married, in 1651, to Guillaume de Lafon de Boisguérin, Seigneur Deshoulières, enjoyed a great reputation under Louis XIV., when she was surnamed the Tenth Muse and the French Calliope. She is now remembered chiefly by her idyll of the Moutons, although her collected idylls, odes, elegiacs and songs, to say nothing of two highly unsuccessful tragedies, fill two, volumes 8vo.—T.
[339] Marie Anne Henriette Payan de L'Étang, Marquise d'Antremont, later Baronne de Bourdic, later Madame Viot (1746-1802) was three times married. She was already known for several pieces of verse inserted in the Almanach des Muses when, for a while, she acquired a real fame through her Ode au Silence, which was long considered one of the master-pieces of the eighteenth century.—B.