The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 83
de Medicis, wife of Henry IV. who finished amiserable life in one of those asylums open to indigence,far from the dominions of her father and of the statesover which she had presided. Voltaire speaks of Cosmo I. Duke of Florence, whokilled one of his children for having assassinated theother. This… … MADAME DACIER. This celebrated Lady was born in the year 1651, atSaumur, where her father, Tanneguy Le Fevre, taughtthe belles lettres. In the evenings he instructed his son,to whom Anne,his younger sister, whispered the responseswhen his memory failed him. This being perceivedby Le Fevre, he…
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