A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Dupre Mary
DUPRE MARY.
Daughter of a sister of des Marêts de St. Sorlin, of the French Academy, was born at Paris and educated by her uncle. Endowed with a happy genius and a retentive memory, she read the principal French, Italian, and Latin authors in the original, and understood Greek and Philosophy. She studied Descartes so thoroughly, that she obtained the surname of la Cartesienne; and she also wrote very agreeable verses, and corresponded with several of her learned contemporaries. The answers of Isis to Climene, in the select pieces of poetry published by Father Bouhors, are by this lady. She lived in the seventeenth century,