MURAT (HENRIETTA JULIA DECASTELNAU, COUNTESS DE)
Was well known in the world of gallantry, and wrote memoirs of her own life: a little romance, called Les Lutins de Kemosi; another romance: Des Contes des Fées; le Voyage de Campagne; and le Comte de Dunois, attributed falsely to M. de Villedieu. She wrote also several little poems.
MUSEA,
An ancient lyric and epigrammatic poetess; whose epigrams and lyric poems are mentioned by Cælius Rodiginus.
MUSNIER (ANN).
"I do not know," says St. Foix, "a more flattering or finer title to nobility, than that which the descendants of Ann Musnier produced, at the reformation. Three men, whilst they were waiting in an alley of the count of Champaign's garden, for that prince's rising, consulted together upon a plot they had laid for assassinating him. Ann Musnier, who was concealed behind a tree, overheard part of their conversation: seeing them withdraw, shocked at the thoughts of a design against her prince's life, and fearful perhaps that she should not have time enough to acquaint him of it, she called out from the other end of the walk, and beckoned to them as if she wanted to speak with them. One of them advancing towards her, she stabbed him with a large kitchen knife, and he fell at her feet: she then defended her-
