A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Guillet, (Penette du)

GUILLET (PENETTE DU), a Poetess of Lyons, co-temporary with Louisa Labé, and illustrious for her virtue, graces, beauty, and literary attainment.

She accompanied her own voice on many instruments, which she touched with exquisite skill. The Spanish, Italian, and Latin languages, in the last of which she composed many poems, were almost as familiar to her as the French. Many of her poetical pieces have reached the present times.

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