A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Sorel, (Agnes)
SOREL (AGNES), the Mistress of Charles VII. King of France; died of a Dysentery, 1449.
One who, to many virtues, added that of turning the influence she possessed over the king to his glory, and the good of her country. She would not suffer him to sink into the luxurious indolence to which he was inclined; but animated him, by intreaties and remonstrances, to active measures against the English, and to perseverance, even when fortune did not seem in his favour.
F. C.