MAHAUT, COUNTESS OF ARTOIS
Burgundy through the marriage of her granddaughter with its Duke.
Here, though only a tithe has been told, we must take leave of this cultivated woman of the fourteenth century, a type of the time and for all time. Her aim was the aim of all culture—the attainment of as complete a life as possible. To this she aspired, and to this in large measure she attained. What more can be said of even those we count the greatest?
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