A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Rochier, Agnes du
ROCHIER, AGNES DU,
Was a very beautiful girl, the only daughter of a rich tradesman of Paris. Her father left her a handsome fortune, but at the age of eighteen she turned recluse, in the parish of St. Opertune, in 1403. Recluses built themselves a little chamber adjoining the walls of some church. The door of the cell was sealed with great pomp by the bishop, and never again opened. A little window was left, from whence the recluse heard the offices of the church, and received the necessaries of life. Agnes du Rochier lived to the age of ninety-eight.