A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Guillet, Pernette du

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4120527A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Guillet, Pernette du

GUILLET, PERNETTE DU,

A poetess of Lyons, and a contemporary of Louise Labbé, was illustrious for her virtue, grace, beauty, and learning. She sang and played exquisitely, understood several languages, and wrote in Latin with facility.

In Pemette du Guillet, it is said, "all that is lovely in woman was united."