A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Durand, Catharine
DURAND, CATHARINE.
A French poetess, married a man by the name of Bedacien, and died in 1736. She kept the name of Durand because she had begun to write under it. She published several romances, comedies, in prose and verse, and some poetry. An "Ode a la Louange de Louis the Fourteenth," gained the prize for poetry at the French Academy, in 1701; its chief merit, that which obtained the prize, was doubtless the homage the author rendered the Grand Monarque.