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DESHOULIERES, ANTOINETTE DU LIGIER DE LA GARDE (1638–1694) , See also:French poet, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 1st of See also:January 1638. She was the daughter of Melchior du Ligier, sieur de la Garde, maitre d'hotel to the queens See also:Marie de' See also:Medici and See also:Anne of See also:Austria. She received a careful and very See also:complete See also:education, acquiring a knowledge of Latin, See also:Spanish and See also:Italian, and studying See also:prosody under the direction of the poet See also:Jean Hesnault. At the See also:age of thirteen she married See also:Guillaume de Boisguerin, seigneur Deshoulieres, who followed the See also:prince of See also:Conde as See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel of one of his regiments to See also:Flanders about a See also:year after the See also:marriage. Madame Deshoulieres returned for a See also:time to the See also:house of her parents, where she gave herself to See also:writing See also:poetry and studying the See also:philosophy of Gassendi. She rejoined her See also:husband at See also:Rocroi, near See also:Brussels, where, being distinguished for her See also:personal beauty, she became the See also:object of embarrassing attentions on the See also:part of the prince of Conde. Having made herself See also:obnoxious to the See also:government by her urgent demand forthe arrears of her husband's pay, she was imprisoned in the See also:chateau of Wilworden. After a few months she was freed by her husband, who attacked the chateau at the See also:head of a small See also:band of soldiers. An See also:amnesty having been proclaimed, they returned to See also:France, where Madame Deshoulieres soon became a conspicuous personage at the See also:court of See also:Louis XIV. and in See also:literary society. She won the friendship and admiration of the most eminent literary men of the age—some of her more zealous flatterers even going so far as to See also:style her the tenth muse and the French See also:Calliope. Her poems were very numerous, and included specimens of nearly all the See also:minor forms, odes, eclogues, idylls, elegies, chansons, See also:ballads, madrigals, &c. Of these the idylls alone, and only some of them, have stood the test of time, the others being entirely forgotten.

She wrote several dramatic See also:

works, the best of which do not rise to mediocrity. Her friend-See also:ship for See also:Corneille made her take sides for the Phedre of Pradon against that of See also:Racine. See also:Voltaire pronounced her the best of See also:women French poets; and her reputation with her contemporaries is indicated by her See also:election as a member of the See also:Academy of the Ricovrati of See also:Padua and of the Academy of See also:Arles. In 1688 a See also:pension of 2000 livres was bestowed upon her by the See also:king, and she was thus relieved from the poverty in which she had See also:long lived. She died in Paris on the 17th See also:February 1694. Complete See also:editions of her works were published at Paris in 1695, 1747, &c. These include a few poems by her daughter, See also:Antoine Therese Deshoulieres (1656–1718), who inherited her See also:talent.

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