Note 231 — Chapter III · 1642 to 1644.

Madame de Motteville has thus painted her, vol. i., p. 47: “Her eyes were blue, large, and full of fire; her teeth white and even, and her complexion had the white and incarnation necessary to a light beauty.” Her Nom de Précieuse was Hermione, Grand Dictionnaire des Pretieuses, vol. i., p. 218. Scarron has greatly celebrated her. Married in 1646 to the Marshal Charles de Schomberg, she followed him into his government of Trois Evechés, encountered Metz, the young Bossuet, and encouraged his first efforts. After the death of the marshal she lived in retirement, and died in 1691.