A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Bourget, Clemence de

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BOURGET, CLEMENCE DE,

A lady born of respectable parents at Lyons. She possessed so much merit as a writer, a musician, and a poetess, that she was presented to two monarchs, who passed through Lyons, as the greatest ornament of her native city. She died of a broken heart, in consequence of the loss of her lover, John de Peyrat, who fell at the siege of Beaurepaire, in 1561. She was the contemporary of Louise Labbé, la belle Corrdiére, and was very much attached to her, but the conduct of Louise at length compelled her more exemplary friend to withdraw her friendship.