A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Loges, Marie Bruneau
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LOGES, MARIE BRUNEAU,
Was one of the most illustrious women in France in the seventeenth century. She was zealous for the reformed religion, and was highly esteemed by Malherbe and Balzac, and all the greatest wits and princes of her time. She died in 1641, and left nine children by her husband, Charles de Rechignèvoisen, Lord des Leges, at one time gentleman in ordinary of the king's bed-chamber.