A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Lambert, Anne Therese, Marquise de
LAMBERT, ANNE THERESE, MARQUISE DE,
Was daughter of a master of the accounts, and was born at Paris in 1647. She lost her father at three years old; and her mother then married the ingenious Bachaumont, who took great pleasure in cultivating his step-daughter's talents. She married Henri Lambert, Marquis of St. Bris, in 1666; but he died in 1688. After this, she had long and troublesome law-suits; but succeeding in them, she took a house in Paris, to which it was considered an honour to be admitted. All literary persons resorted to it for the sake of conversation, as hers was almost the only house free from the vice of gaming. She died in 1733, aged 86. Her works were printed in two volumes, and are marked by fine sense, taste, and spirit. The principal ones are, "Avis d'une Mère à son fils, et d'une Mère à sa fille." These are not mere dry didactic precepts, but the easy and graceful effusions of a noble and delicate mind.