PREMONTVAL (MADAME), born at Paris, 1724,
The wife of a writer of considerable repute, in some of whose works she had a share, published some of her own, amongst which is the following:
Le Mechaniste Philosophe; Mémoires concernant plusieurs Particularités de la Vie du Dr. Jean Pigeon (her father) Mathématicien, 8 vo. 1750. She was a great favourite at the Prussian court, for her learning and many other excellent qualities.
PRINGIS (MADAME DE), a learned French Lady, of the 17th Century,
Wrote Les Caractères des Femmes; Junie, ou les Sentimens des Romains; and other works.
There they became acquainted with St. Paul, who wrought with them as a tent-maker, being of the same occupation; as every Jew, whether rich or poor, was obliged to follow a trade. After the departure of St. Paul, they instructed the eloquent and zealous Apollos in christianity, which he before knew no more of, than what was contained in the system of John the Baptist. Both Priscilla and her husband appear to have been highly esteemed by St. Paul; to have laboured with him, both in a spiritual and temporal sense, at Corinth; and on their return to Rome, some
