A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Miramion, (Mary, Dame de)
MIRAMION (MARY, DAME DE); born at Paris, 1629; died 1696, aged 66.
Daughter of James Bonneau, seig. de Ruballe; married, 1645, to Beauharnois, seig. de Miramion, who died the same year. She had a daughter by him. Being young, rich, and very handsome, she was solicited to marry again, and M. de Bussi Rabutin went so far as to have her run away with; but his purpose was defeated, and she determined to remain single for the rest of her life. She founded a house for profligate women and girls, who were irreclaimable, and that of St. Pelagia, for such as wished to retire to it. She also established, in 1661, a society of twelve young women, to keep small schools, dress wounds, and attend the sick; which community she governed with much prudence and wisdom. Her Remedies are very famous.