A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Montenay, Georgette de
MONTENAY, GEORGETTE DE,
Was still young when her father, her mother, and six servants in their house, died of the plague. She had the good fortune to escape, and Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, took her into her service as maid of honour. The reading the emblems of Alciat gave this young lady the idea of composing a hundred emblems on Christian or moral subjects, illustrated by verses of her own, which she dedicated to Jeanne d'Albret, and which were printed in 1574.