A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Deroches, Madeleine Revuo
DEROCHES, MADELEINE REVUO,
And her daughter Catharine, were famed among the French literati for wit and sparkling vivacity of mind. Their names cannot be separated, for, like twin stars, they illuminated the literary sky. The greatest minds of France sought and enjoyed their conversation: Marley, Scaliger, Rapin, and Pasquier, considered it more improving than that of their male friends, and Pasquier published a collection of poems, with the curious title "Fleas of Miss Deroches," (1582.) They were inseparable in death as during their life. They always expressed a wish that they migth die at the same time; and Providence granted it. They died on the same day at Poictiers, victims of the plague, which prevailed there at that time. Their works were published, in two volumes, in the year 1604.