Another friend and inmate of the house was the traveller and physician François Bernier, whose abridgment of the works of Gassendi was written for Mme de la Sablière.

The abbé Chaulieu and his fellow-poet, Charles Auguste, marquis de La Fare, were among her most intimate associates.

[3][5] Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux mocked her scientific pretensions in his Satire contre les femmes holding an astrolabe, her efforts to observe Jupiter were portrayed as weakening her sight and ruining her complexion.

[3] Mme de la Sablière thenceforward gave more and more attention to good works, much of her time being spent in the hospital for incurables.

[3] She was credited with starting the custom of putting milk into tea in her salon, allegedly to prevent her eggshell teacups from cracking.