A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Bector, Claude de
BECTOR, CLAUDE DE,
Descended from an illustrious house in Dauphiny, abbess of St Honore de Tarascon, was eminent for her knowledge of Latin, and her fine style of writing. She was honoured by her admirers with the name of Scholastica, She gave early such indications of genius, that a monk, Denis Fanchier, undertook the care of her education. In a little time she made so great a progress, that she equalled the most learned men of the age. Her Latin and French poems, letters and treatises, for acuteness and solidity, have been classed with the ancient philosophers. She maintained a correspondence with many learned men in France and Italy. Francis the First, of France, was so charmed with the letters of this abbess, that he carry them about him, and showed them as models worthy of imitation. He went with his sister, Margaret of Navarre, to Tarascon on porpoae to see this celebrated lady. She died in 1547.