A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Sabliere, Madame de la
SABLIERE, MADAME DE LA,
A French poetess, was the friend and benefactress of La Fontaine, who lived in her house for twenty years. Her husband was also a poet, and she is said to have assisted him in his writings. She was not, however, always faithful to her husband; but she expiated this sin, in the opinion of her contemporaries, by retiring to a convent, and consecrating the rest of her life to taking care of the sick. She died at Paris in the latter part of the seventeenth century.