Claude Catherine de Clermont

Claude-Catherine of Clermont-Thunder of Vivonne , lady of Dampierre , countess and duchess of Retz , born in 1543 with Paris where she died the February 18th 1603, is a French Salonnière .

Only daughter of Claude of Clermont-Thunder and Jeanne de Vivonne, Catherine de Clermont was only daughter of Claude of Clermont-Thunder, baron de Dampierre and of Jeanne de Vivonne. Having married, at eighteen years, Jean d' Annebaut, it was found widowed at twenty years, when he was killed with the Bataille of Dreux. Of a great beauty and extremely courted, Catherine was named lady-in-waiting of the queen Catherine de Médicis, then controlling children of France.

She acquired a great reputation by her intellectual achievements, described as “tenth MUSE” and of “fourth grace”, “She deserved, says the Cross of Maine, to be put at the row of most learned and better versed as well in the Poésie and art of public speaking as in Philosophie, Mathématiques, Histoire and other sciences. ”

She spoke the Latin , the Greek and almost all the foreign languages. In 1573, when the ambassadors of Poland asked for the duke of Anjou, future Henri III, for king, it answered them publicly in Latin for the queen mother, and its speech overrode those of the chancellor of Birague and the count de Cheverny, which answered for Charles IX and the duke of Anjou.

Having married in second weddings Albert de Gondi, duke of Retz, Catherine united courage with science: during the absence of her husband, the league the USSR threatened its grounds; it assembled troops with its expenses, was put at their head, and forced the factious ones to escape.

Holding living room and taking part regularly in the meetings of the Academy of the Palate, it also made work of Mécène by supporting the foundation of the Académie of music and poetry of Baïf in 1570.

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