Henriette de Coligny de La Suze

[3] In 1666, she published a collection of 21 of her poems as Poésies de Madame la Comtesse de La Suze but she also contributed verse and prose to many other collected works.

[4] Ninety-five of her poems appear in "L'amour raisonnable", part of Recueil de pièces galantes en prose et en vers; each poem is preceded by a preamble in prose.

[1] She was married twice: first, in 1643, to Thomas Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Haddington,[5] who died in February 1645, and then, in 1647,[4] to Gaspard de Champagne, comte de la Suze.

[1] Boileau, the oracular critic, had already decided in 1700 that his elegies were infinitely pleasing.

One of his friends, Father Le Moyne, a Jesuit specialist in worldly devotion, attributed to him a beautiful Latin motto, Non urar tacita (I cannot burn and remain silent).